This is the fourth in my series of blog posts looking at employment support programmes for sick and disabled people. So far, the most...

This is the third blog in a series looking at various employment support programmes that have tried to support sick and disabled people...

There are so many issues with Liz Kendall’s speech today, and the Green Paper proposals, that it is really hard to know where to begin....

My last blog post covered the Work and Health Programme (W&HP) for disabled people who had been “identified as being capable of finding...

The current Labour government is very keen for people with chronic illness to somehow move into work. Despite all the evidence which...

Labour have enthusiastically reported that they are carrying out a review that will be the first of its kind, but it is unclear what is new

I found this old blogpost from April that I had forgotten to publish at the time, about where my chronic illness had got to at that point.

Is there such a thing as a righteous rich person, and conversely an unrighteous poor? Is it that all poor people should be treated as...

Mike Savage’s book, Social Class in the 21st Century. The emotions of class The UK has long been interested in the subject of class and...

“The word we might use most commonly next to "suffering" is "season." But what if your experience of suffering is your life's climate?...

One of the government’s most common tropes when it is discussing welfare is a desire to focus support on ‘the most needy’. Superficially...

The UK PM perpetuates the myth of the sick note culture, as an excuse to cut support to sick and disabled people.

I hate charity. Not when I’m giving: when I’m giving, I love charity. It makes me feel better about myself, because I have done something...

This is a guest post by Robert Hoch (Yidokodiltona), who wrote a review of my book, Second Class Citizens: The Treatment of Disabled...

A few weeks ago I came across these tweets by Sophie Killingley, @PrettySophieK, 9th Feb 2024: 1) The Evangelical urge to view everything...

This is the second in my series, Stories That Challenge, hosted by Church Action on Poverty. These stories seek to reveal the reality...

I currently have a series of blog posts being hosted by Church Action on Poverty. The first one tells the stories of Alan and Ben, two...

I actually wrote this blog post back in November - still autumn - but forgot about it so never reviewed and posted it. Here it is, a...

I had the pleasure recently of speaking at my church about poverty and my experience of it. At the end, one lady asked a question about...

The DWP uses all sorts of different names for its programmes, which makes it hard to compare what they’re proposing now to the evidence...