It is a fact, universally acknowledged, at least by those who practice the art, that there are some days that are just not designed for
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Danny Dorling has just accepted a chair at Oxford. I suggest that this is why: The elite is shrinking. It really is now only 1%
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I suggested yesterday that we should tax vacant properties, heavily. It is an idea I first proposed for the TUC in 2009. I stick by
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To follow on from my last post on who benefits from benefits, I am grateful to Flip Chart Fairy Tales for drawing my attention to this
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I don’t like the term ‘benefits’. It’s patronising; the term social security is correct, in my opinion. So I use the term ‘benefits’ reluctantly, but
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There is much comment in papers today about Tory appointments of rich men to Quangos. Let’s not beat about the bush on this; it’s just
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It’s more than four years since I wrote the following blog, but it seems to me that it is as relevant as ever, which is why I repeat it
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I have just been invited to do an interview with Katie Hopkins on benefit fraud at lunchtime on BBC Radio Devon. She comes from Devon.
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There are stark choices available on sea defences in today’s papers. As the Guardian puts it: And as it also says: Both are about sea
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