As we enter into five years of Conservative rule, those of us who are relatively privileged need to be reminded of a vital principle: we have no right to despair. We won't pay the highest price.
The UK "benefit" system is about ensuring that people play the part alloted to them by economic and political elites.
The coalition presents its benefit reforms as fair, rational and efficient. For many, however, the world is not as ordered as those in power seem to imagine.
Basic Income is not a panacea for our woeful economic structure but it could certainly be a big step forward.
The final part of a four part series on the Work Programme, examining what the programme means by 'success' and 'failure'.
A society dependent on the financial, social and existential insecurity of its people has failed in one of the basic goals of democracy.
If you incentivise private companies to achieve X, Y and Z, they will inevitably find the easiest and lowest cost way of achieiving it. That is not necessarily the desired social outcome.
The second of a four part series on the government's controversial welfare reforms.
A four part series on the government's controversial welfare reforms.
Two films, one showing the power of the masses, the other showing the power of inaction.
The DWP's goals are controversial in themselves but perhaps more worrying is that the department doesn't seem able to function - report after report lays bare the most fundamental failings.
A young couple on benefits, smiling, with an expensive looking pram. Something's wrong here.
