Good Society
The benefit cap tackles a real problem from the wrong end
A cap on the total amount of benefits that people receive begins rolling out across England, Wales and Scotland today. The cap applies to those aged 16 to 64 and means that couples and lone parents will no longer receive more than £500 a week, with single people limited to a maximum of £350 a week.
Michael Gove, we need to teach less competitiveness and more compassion
Eton has a practice known as "oiling", which as Anthony Seldon has approvingly noted “is learning how to win friends and influence others, and how to clamber over them to get what you want. It's a mixture of ambition, self-confidence and bloody-mindedness.”
‘Presumed consent’ is illiberal and unnecessary
Presumed consent is illiberal and unnecessary and the ends do not justify the means - especially when there is a better way of ensuring we get more donor organs to save lives.
On public health this government is in the pocket of big business and sleazy lobbyists
Today we saw yet another disgraceful capitulation by this government to the interests of their friends in big business.
The government needs to take the growth of payday lenders more seriously
Payday lending has historically been referred to as fringe banking in the United States, but you couldn't deny it's anything other than big business today.
This surrender to the tobacco industry will result in more young people and children smoking
The government today announced that it will not be introducing legislation on standardised packaging for cigarettes and other tobacco products.