Via Starving Zimbabweans face food aid cut | World news | guardian.co.uk : The World Food Programme is to cut the core maize ration in February from 10kg to 5kg a month – or just 600 calories a day – for 7 million Zimbabweans, about 70% of the people left […]
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The case for early intervention
The more I learn about our broken society, the more heartbreaking the situation appears. We are not self-reliant pioneers conquering a new continent: we are the heirs to generations of ineffective government intervention. We have broken our society and the problem is growing: [T]he size of the dysfunctional base in […]
Read MoreLabour’s Debt Crisis Campaign
The Conservatives have launched a campaign highlighting the human consequences of the current debt crisis. You can learn more here. Indebtedness is one of five main pathways to poverty. You can find analysis and proposals from the Centre for Social Justice here.
Read MoreBreakthrough Britain
If anyone still doubts whether British society is broken, they should read the reports of the Centre for Social Justice. When we consider family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependence, indebtedness and addictions, the human and financial cost of decades of top-down bureaucratic control becomes heart-breaking. And let’s not forget that, […]
Read More“We’ll get ‘Shameless’ families out of bed and off to work in the morning”, says Blears | Mail Online
Wild interventionism: A crackdown on “Shameless” families could see state officials turning up at peoples homes to get them out of bed for work and make sure their children go to school. Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said the Government was prepared to take drastic steps to tackle a hardcore of […]
Read MoreGordon Brown dealt fresh blow as Bishop of London criticises ‘false financial hopes’
The Church of England sustains its stand for morality: They were joined by the bishops of Winchester and Carlisle, who claimed ministers had squandered their opportunity to transform society and run out of steam, sacrificing principled politics and long-term solutions for policies designed to win votes. Right now, I am […]
Read MoreHarriet Harman criticised after suggesting pensioners should be grateful to Government – Telegraph
The Telegraph furthers its “Justice for Pensioners” campaign: As well as losing out on income in their retirement, pensioners are hit twice over because when calculating their benefits the Government assumes they are receiving interest rates of 10 per cent on any savings. Ten percent? It would be funny if […]
Read MoreSocial action: manning the local night shelter
I will be manning our local night shelter between January and March. Homelessness is a subject close to my heart. It is a scandal that — in this age and with such levels of spending on social security — people are forced to sleep rough. It is a scandal we […]
Read MoreDependence on the state
Graham reminded me how many people are now dependent on our deeply indebted state. For example, 1 in 5 of the UK’s whole workforce is in the public sector. They are net recipients of tax income, as are their children, if they are the sole breadwinner or their partner is […]
Read MoreHousing: the mess we are in. Three articles from the FT today.
“MPs urge scrapping of tax on empty property”: Gordon Brown is coming under pressure from his own backbenchers to scrap a tax on empty property, which is blamed for the demolition of buildings that developers cannot sell. read more | digg story “Rents hit by surge in supply of homes”: […]
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