Living on benefits in the UK
Mia Patrick — March 7, 2010 0 Comments
Near where we live there is a brand new complex of smartish looking business premises. At the time, they had just one occupant: Shaw Trust. And Chubby was possibly the first person to walk through their doors. They gave him a piece of paper outlining the change in our finances if he were to work twenty hours a week. He would gain just over £110.40 a week in pay, from which £1.14 national insurance and £1.04 income tax would be deducted. He would lose £98.45 in long term incapacity benefit
Economics
Labour and inequality
Richard Seymour — January 30, 2010 0 Comments
New Labour has run, in many ways, the most right-wing administration since the Second World War. This is true in terms of its privatisation of housing and public services, in terms of its tax cuts for the rich and services to the City, in terms of its warmongering, and on any number of other axes that you could name. It has adopted neoliberal economics, neoconservative foreign policy, and the New Right’s agenda on race relations
Politics
Pay the unemployed more
Matt Kennard — March 26, 2009 2 Comments
The British government must pay the country’s unemployed more than the derisory 60 pounds a week
Economics
Ashtrayland: Britain is failing its young people
Ali H — December 23, 2008 1 Comment
Rather than criminalizing and alienating poor kids in Britain, they should be treated as important parts of our society and helped to escape poverty.
Psychology
The fight for the National Union of Students in the UK
Hind Hassan — December 21, 2008 0 Comments
In trying to push through a reform package that the Guardian has called a ‘Blairite revolution’, the National Union of Students’ Labour leadership is putting the NUS on a path to self-destruction.