The Ragged-Skirted Philanthropist

I've been working with my colleagues on a last ditch take-up campaign to ensure that as many disabled people as possible in our district...

Here's the text of an email I sent my MP ahead of last week's Opposition debate on Universal Credit.  While there has, rightly, been...

There is understandable outrage on social media today, regarding a post stating that the Tories are now denying people benefits for using fo...

On Monday 19th December, the Benefit Cap for unemployed families in Stoke-on-Trent fell to £20,000 per annum, or £384.62 per week.  Whereas ...

I unexpectedly found myself wearing my 'tribunal suit' yesterday, appropriately (if accidentally) accessorised with a ladder up the...

It looks as if Channel 4 might be taking a step towards redemption, after inflicting Benefits Street upon us, with a piece of investigative ...

Until he retired, my father worked as a train driver.  A heart attack in about 1992 took him off the main line and into the 'depot...