The budget today announced a lot of stuff, and most of it I’m not qualified to comment on. I’m interested, because I have a sister with...

I think I've worked out what it is that I dislike about people saying that poverty isn’t just, or even mainly, about material lack. Even...

You might think that amongst those who have suffered, compassion for those in a similar situation is higher. And indeed, in at least some...

Lowborn I recently read Kerry Hudson’s 2019 book, Lowborn. I don’t really have much to say about it, because honestly it is so good. And...

There have been a handful of articles recently querying the model of healthcare that the NHS uses, and suggesting that we should pursue a...

There have been a handful of articles recently querying the model of healthcare that the NHS uses, and suggesting that we should pursue a...

I recently had a conversation with someone about whether the German healthcare system is superior to ours. I made two comments, which the...

A lot of us have been saying that the NHS has been collapsing for years. Now, maybe you think we were crying wolf previously when there...

There’s an annoying primary school rhyme that goes, ‘I know you are, you said you are, so what am I?’ The idea is the kid has been...

A recipe for cabbage soup was posted on twitter recently, positing that this soup – eaten twice a day for 4 days – would see someone...

Budget menus abound on the internet, but what I’ve rarely seen with them is a calculation of whether keeping to that menu can meet one’s...

I enjoy listening to a range of podcasts from different political viewpoints. One topic that came up recently – albeit as a sidenote of...

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

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...

Dear Jonathan Reynolds, Re: Welfare should reflect ‘what you put in’ to tackle public mistrust, says Labour’s shadow DWP secretary I am...

PIP isn’t supposed to be about diagnoses. But even with my diagnoses, I have major difficulties getting benefits assessors from a range...

Recently I failed a PIP appeal. I get standard rate mobility - which at one point the Tribunal were minded to take away - but was...

The point of extra-costs disability benefits is to meet some of the costs experienced by people with disability, in order to raise them...

In the modern hegemony of identity politics, a person is only allowed to comment on something if they have direct experience of it. So...

This post is a response to Simon Duffy’s critique of a debate between Barb Johnson (from Basic Income UK) and Anna Coote (from New...