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Bill Gates has come up with a good idea – due to advances in automation, why not tax robots….? It could be a way of maintaining government tax revenue says, Gates. Bill Gates ought to know about bringing in the cash - Bill is worth about...

Our BBC Sport post was featured. The debate was about how sports are having their funding cut - sports that have not supplied sufficient medals according to the people upstairs.   Just when you though sport was about taking part, or did you? &nb...

Following last week’s session with two sets of workers with very differing accounts of the self-employment as couriers and drivers in the “gig economy”, the Work and Pensions Committee this week hears from some of the companies that...

Four million more people are living below an adequate standard of living and are just about managing at best, as per an authoritative report on living standards in modern Britain. SECTION: The new research for the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundati...

A purportedly self-employed plumber engaged through a London-based firm was a 'worker', entitled to paid holiday rights and the right to bring a claim for disability discrimination, the Court of Appeal has ruled.10 Feb 2017 The court upheld an employ...

Official figures released today by the Office for National Statistics show that there are over 300,000 more people in work compared to the same time last year, and the number of women in work has risen to a record rate of 70.0%. The latest statistics...

Tim Loughton, MP for East Worthing and Shoreham, the MP who described Ken Loach’s speech at the BFTA Awards as ‘drivel’ has had his expenses examined in an article by the Argus newspaper.  Mr Loughton spent an eye watering &pou...

According to the Huffington Post a Conservative MP has come under attack for dismissing director Ken Loach’s BAFTA speech as “drivel”. Loach, the Jeremy Corbyn supporting film maker, condemned the government for closing do...

A woman from Bristol who has been house-bound since being diagnosed with an incurable flesh-eating disease in 2002 claims her disability benefit has been cut - because assessors have deemed her fit to work. CeaJay Clem, from Longwell Green, clai...

The mother of a disabled man who starved to death after he was found “fit for work” and lost his out-of-work disability benefits has called for ministers to face criminal charges. Jill Gant says work and pensions ministers should be tried...