I recently finished reading The Myth of the Undeserving Poor: a Christian response to poverty in Britain today by Martin Charlesworth and...

I have been thinking recently about what Christian lending and borrowing would look like if we tried to incorporate Biblical principles,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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....

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...