I recently published two briefings about social security for sick and disabled people, in an attempt to help MPs see why Labour's planned...

On 1st May 2025, I was part of a small group of women who had a brief meeting with Stephen Timms, to discuss the cuts that Labour plan to...

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Stephen Timms, the Labour MP who is Minister for Social Security and Disability. This was as...

The Learning and Work Institute recently released a briefing which, rather optimistically to my mind, suggested that 45,000-95,000 sick...

This is the fifth in my series of blog posts looking at the impact of employment support for sick and disabled people. So far, a handful...

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

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.

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

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 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...

Today was my second visit to a food club. This time, I’d swapped to one nearer to me, though still a mile away. That’s fine with my...

I went to a food club recently. A food club is where you pay a small-ish amount of money for food that is about to go out-of-date, or...

Mike Savage, Social Class in the 21st Century.[1] The emotions of class The UK has long been interested in the subject of class and class...

Conservative Home has started a series of posts at looking at ways to reduce the demand for government. The first post, by David...