julian dobson
I'm co-founder of New Start magazine. I write about communities, society and regeneration, and blog at http://livingwithrats.blogspot.com 
julian@newstartmag.co.uk
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‘Break down the hate and bring out the kindness’: Improving the UK’s benefit system
Jess Steele, one of the architects of the Community Allowance, was passionate about the ‘billions of pounds we spend on welfare every year just to keep people above the gutter’. As the Liberal Democrat peer Archy Kirkwood put it, one of the best things about the Community Allowance is that it ‘changes the paradigm about how people in poverty are seen’
Britain today: we don’t like it, but it’s home
A look at the latest citizenship survey