How do you convince people to read Hegel or worse! if all they have to do is type the essay question into their laptop and then mess around with it a bit? And how do you convince people to mark this … (View Post)

Labour have completely fluffed their welfare strategy. In opposition they acted horrified that temporary cost-of-living payments might have to end at some time, won an election with a small proportio… (View Post)

I like the idea of a young John Curtice sitting in his PPE degrees with all these characters who want to get ahead and him thinking "your approval ratings are atrocious." (View Post)

Sure, but only about 60 000 claimants are under 25, so you can have a tripling of claimants on a monthly basis in those numbers that are significantly less in numerical terms than say, a doubling of … (View Post)

This is largely fiction - PIP has far more face-to-face assessments than DLA, the equivalent benefit at the time. In fact PIP assessments are generally considered far stricter than DLA, which had onl… (View Post)