The UK’s broken system makes losers of us all
Today’s welfare state asks for and confirms people’s incapacity to work – not their ability to do so.
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Punitive welfare reforms won’t help sick Britain
Repairing the NHS and social care is the best way to get the long-term ill into work.
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Is universal basic income possible here?
In Jarrow, where jobless men once marched for work, a radical experiment in free money is unfolding.
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Why the trope of the benefit “scrounger” has returned
Welfare minister Tom Pursglove quotes Taken to try to sound tough on welfare “fraudsters”.
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Why Jeremy Hunt’s Budget welfare reforms won’t work
The Chancellor announced the biggest benefit changes in a decade. But they may only make life harder for Brits who…
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Lee Anderson thinks he knows Britain – but he’s missed one sad key truth
The deputy Tory chairman has accused Britons of “abusing” food banks.
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Replacing lost Sure Start centres is a tacit admission of austerity’s failure
The Tories are trying to repair another chunk of the state they wished they hadn’t lopped off.
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The cost of dying: “pauper’s funerals” have doubled since 2019
Exclusive figures reveal how more people are turning to public health funerals in poor parts of Britain.
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