Poverty is a weapon of mass exploitation

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,414 Tuesday 26 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, The cost of poverty is enormous, it affects both physical and mental health with associated costs, it affects education, aspiration and life expectancy, it affects the kind of jobs available to those in poverty, the quality of housing, the […]

Benefit denial is the raison d’être of the DWP under IDS

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,283 Saturday 12 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, You know, some fool once said, ‘there’s no such thing as a free lunch’ which is really just a triumph of cynicism but which sums up you Tories to a T. I have to wonder if you’ve ever done […]