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Many will be worse off under Universal Credit
Last week’s welfare reform white paper included the following graph, claiming to show that “many households will receive more under Universal Credit than under the current system”; at first viewing, the graph does appear to show small weekly gains for those in lower income deciles, and insignificant losses for those higher up the income distribution. But all is not as it seems.
The CPS, judiciary and Yasmin Alibhai Brown just don’t get Twitter
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is well remunerated to exercise her opinions every week in her Independent column. Her free expression keeps a roof over her head, so you’d expect her to be forgiving when others exercise their rights. Sadly not. Whilst she didn’t call the police about Cllr Compton, she says she would have done so, and has backed up the CPS position that these tweets are “menacing”.
Look Left – Real issues lost amidst the madness
The violent rage of a small minority overshadowed the quiet anger of the many as protests against the government's education cuts turned toxic this week. Fourteen people were injured and there were 50 arrests following the attack on the Tories' Millbank HQ on Wednesday, after a peaceful demonstration which saw 50,000 students march on Westminster demanding a rethink of plans to treble tuition fees and slash higher education funding. The violence was immediately condemned by the National Union of Students, NUS President Aaron Porter calling it "despicable".
Constitutional changes will undermine universal jurisdiction
When Peter Tatchell tried to conduct a citizen’s arrest on Robert Mugabe in Kensington 10 years ago, he was aggressively manhandled and later charged with public order offences. Today he could have made an application in front a judge for a warrant forcing the police to arrest Mugabe for crimes against humanity. The coalition government is about remove this right.
Standards or structures?
Our guest writer is Kimberley Trewhitt, a Researcher at the Reform think tank The debate has long raged over “standards […]
Listening to Migrationwatch would imperil our economy
The problem with politics is it’s complicated. Take the issue raised this week by Sir Andrew Green in his ConervativeHome article on immigration. In making his argument about reducing immigration, Green carelessly glossed over some staggeringly complex arguments about what the current and future shape of the UK economy should be.