Look Left – Boris attacks welfare reforms while Byrne goes the other way
Welfare reform and the coalition’s cuts to disability benefits were one of the leading policy issues in the first week back, with growing opposition.
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Boris has slammed Coalition welfare reforms – from the left
The most prominent politician to oppose the government welfare reform is – amazingly – Boris Johnson, taking on benefit scrounger myths and arguing against over-testing
Tax isn’t taxing when you’re Goldman Sachs
Alex Hern writes about the public accounts committee’s report on tax collection and HMRC’s dealings with big businesses, letting them off the hook.
Five reasons to oppose the welfare bill
The welfare reform bill will penalise the disabled, those working class communities who live in inner cities and second-earners who work over 16 hours a week.
Mail and Telegraph race to see who can smear more disabled people
Declan Gaffney uncovers the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph’s latest smearing of disabled people, and asks whether the DWP had anything to do with them.
John Humphrys is wrong, wrong, wrong on social security; here’s why
Declan Gaffney explains why John Humphrys is wrong on social security and welfare reform, ahead of the presenter’s BBC2 documentary on “The Future State of Welfare”.
Life is already hard for cancer patients. Don’t make it harder
Alex Hern covers the response from Macmillan cancer support to the government’s welfare reform bill, now in the House of Lords.
How poor children will get poorer on Cameron’s watch
Sam Royston of The Children’s Society explains how the coalition is on course to reverse all progress on reducing child poverty since 2000.
Yet another nasty in the welfare bill: Means testing support for the disabled-since-youth
Hundreds of thousands of families will be affected by the decision to means test ESA for those who have had disabilities since youth, writes Declan Gaffney.
Nomination for most influential left-wing thinker: The disabled rights community
Nomination for left-wing thinker of the year: The disability rights community, in trying to change the way the whole country thinks about people with disabilities.