A new report has shown that despite the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), politicians, and the mainstream media focusing on how much supposed fraud there is in the benefits system, billions are saved by how much support goes unclaimed. Police In Practice produces a yearly Missing Out...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are still attempting to bullshit their way around some of the harshest and cruellest benefit cuts in decades. Minister for disabled people Stephen Timms has been holding regular meetings with deaf and disabled people’s organisations. These chats a...
A new campaign has launched aimed at non-disabled people who think it’s appropriate to manhandle wheelchair users’ equipment. Journalist and campaigner Melissa Parker, who runs Disability Representation Diary, launched the Hands Off Our Handles campaign in response to the way she had been ...
In times gone by, it used to be that the scandal of Strictly would happen after the show had started. The ‘Strictly Curse’ became a bigger part of the show than the actual dancing. However, in recent years the lovely dancing show has been marred by other controversy. Notably, we’ve had all...
While Labour claims to be “making Britain work for working people”, the reality is very different when it comes to quality of life. A new study from Loughborough University’s Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) on behalf of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has come up with a new set ...
A new report from the leading food bank charity Trussell has revealed that hunger and reliance on food banks have gotten even worse since 2022. Trussell’s Hunger in the UK 2025 report, released today Wednesday 10 September, found that in 2024, 14.1 million people across the UK lived in hou...
Earlier in the week, I did something that shocked me: I found myself agreeing with my MP Lewis Atkinson. Atkinson and I haven’t seen eye to eye ever since I published my email to him detailing just how much of an impact benefits cuts would have on his constituency and he replied with some ...
Taking a break from misleading the public about migrants, Reform leader Nigel Farage decided to instead lie to the public about disability benefits claimants. Yes, despite getting massively overshadowed by Starmer’s desperate reshuffle, Farage pressed ahead with his mission of being as dep...
A huge anti-abortion rally happened in London on Saturday 6 September. However, the March for Life has links to a US Christian far-right group. March for Life: awful demo backed by awful group March for Life took place on Saturday and comprised a full day of panels and family events, culmi...
Earlier this week, Reform leader and past its sell-by-date tin of spam Nigel Farage was once again being a bastion of free speech. However, instead of actually representing his constituency of Clacton and indeed his so-called party at the first Prime Ministers Questions (PMQs) back of the ...