I am opposed to the idea of a Universal Basic Income on economic grounds – I don’t think that the sorts of money needed to lift those una...

UBI imagines a world in which all jobs are carried out by robots. The increased use of robots in work is assumed to mean that we can neve...

Let us imagine that a UBI is paid that is at the minimum income standard (MIS). The MIS is enough money for social participation and incl...

I wanted to find data on the consequences of Conservative cuts since 2010, in the hope that I might remember some of them to use in discu...

Another quarter-year, another labour market release. Cue the DWP praising itself for record numbers of people in work, and record rates o...

Whether rightly or wrongly, the government gave the people the choice whether to stay in the EU or leave. Cameron said that he would init...

Dear government, Let’s stop talking about what you think happens in theory and start talking about what is happening in reality. In reali...

Ah Bah. I am sick of hearing about what politicians think, or about what they think the public thinks, or about what the public thinks. I...

There is a debate continuing around the social security system on whether those who have paid in more should get back more when they need...

Just as nature takes millions of years to regain diversity after a mass extinction, so neighbourhoods take years, even decades, to build ...

I’m getting sick of this ‘something for nothing’ attitude that MPs seem to have regarding social security. They complain about giving Job...

When Sir William Beveridge wrote his report on social insurance he identified five giant evils: squalor, ignorance,  want, idleness and d...

It seems to be a week of poverty. Median income is below its level in 2009-10. Work isn’t a route out of poverty. Being in full-time work...

When I first started on disability research, I just saw the numbers. I saw that 40% of ESA claimants told they are fit to work then appea...

Disabled children should be euthanased, according to Cllr Colin Brewer. According to Baroness Warnock, disabled adults should be euthanas...

George Osborne has decided that benefits will be up-rated at 1% for the next three years.  Previously, they would have been uprated in li...

This is a speech made by David Cameron in 2009. “If you or someone you love suffers from a disability, life is going to be hard a lot of ...

Welfare Reform has Public on its Side So says one of today’s Telegraph headlines.[1]  Against a back-drop of criticisms from the Governme...

Ahead of the Autumn Budget, I thought it would be worth looking at what cuts to the Welfare Bill really mean. 1) The size of the cuts The...