Damning proof that the government has no evidence benefits sanctions work
The National Audit Office says the government has failed to measure whether sanctioning benefit claimants represents value for money.
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A life behind bars
For 30 years, Frances Crook has being trying to reform Britain’s prisons. So why does change feel as far away…
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PMQs review: Corbyn forces May to address the welfare cruelty exposed in I, Daniel Blake
Squeezed by coverage of Brexit and the US elections, the Labour leader managed to focus the Prime Minister on the…
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Here’s what Damian Green just doesn’t get
I’m not, as Damian Green suggests, “sitting at home living on benefits”. I’m lying at home, often not living much…
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I’m not, as Damian Green suggests, “sitting at home living on benefits”. I’m lying at home, often not living much…
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Unconvinced by Ken Loach’s benefits story? That says more about Britain than the film does
The director has clashed with a film critic about his representation of the welfare state in I, Daniel Blake.
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Has Brexit burst the British housing bubble?
The fall in value of the pound is having a negative impact on property prices.
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New Times: Ros Wynne-Jones on the people who need a Labour government most
I wish those people who talk about a “long game” would realise that every second the Tory government remains in…
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