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 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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...