How Owen Smith wins: Ditch New Labour and embrace transparency
Smith must break with Labour’s past and hold big business to account
Search Results for Welfare Reform Bill
Lords a tweeting and amending: Labour in the Lords is on the map
Jos Bell looks at Labour’s crusading peers in the House of Lords, fighting harder for a fairer future and holding the coalition to account.
Her Majesty’s uncooperative Queen’s Speech
The Queen’s Speech did not deliver on energy bills, foreign aid or co-operative values.
IDS’s continuing spin war against people with disabilities: part 47
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions continues to use misleading figures on the growth of disability benefit claims to underpin his case for reform.
How DWP’s incompetence cost taxpayers and disabled people
The Department for Work and Pensions’ failure to scrutinise the consequences of disability benefit reform raises serious questions about their competence.
Remploy closures: “This callous coalition government have no sense whatsoever”
The coalition government’s decision to oversee the closure of 36 of Remploy’s 54 factories has been greeted with expressions of extreme disappointment.
The benefits Britons want to save are the ones the Tories want to cut
Declan Gaffney examines Progress’ report on the support for benefits cuts in depth, and finds that it doesn’t show what it purports to show
Legal loan sharks are licking their lips as the social fund is scrapped
Pete Jefferys of the Co-op party explains why the scrapping of the social fund – is playing into the hands of the legal loan sharks like Wonga and Oakam.
The new politics of protest
Matthew Sowemimo argues that Labour needs movements like Occupy and UKUncut to help galvanise disenfranchised populations.
Yes, but are you REALLY disabled?
Ann Milnes Roberts attempts to explain the lives behind the DLA cuts.