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A bizarre online anti-terror training course from the College of Policing and the  warns of the terror threat posed by someone who blames the British government and “the greed of the bankers” for losing his disability benefit. The t...

Use of foodbanks in Crowborough has shot up by almost 30 per cent in a year. A total of 5,013 meals were provided in 2015 compared with 3,618 in the previous year. And there were 557 recipients of handouts – 307 adults and 250 children &nd...

April 6 is set to be a disastrous day in the history of the state pension as millions of future pensioners find out the government has short-changed them, and millions of existing pensioners see their pensions rise by less each year as a result of un...

‘Truly horrible’ UK current account data: Britain’s current account deficit widened to a record £96.3 billion (€123 billion) in 2015 after a bad fourth quarter for exports. The good news is that the U.K. is grow...

An article on Tax by Jolyon Maugham On Sunday I wrote about how the tax system, examined as a whole, isn’t nearly as progressive as George Osborne suggests. It’s regressive, in fact. I gave the Office for National Statistics num...

Some 180 more officers to be recruited to defend against appeals  Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) officials have been given a £22 million war chest to defend against benefit appeals as more changes to payments come into force. In a...

Today’s National Living Wage introduction means a welcome pay rise for over 4 million low-paid people this year, with women and part-time workers most likely to benefit.  “That’s hugely good news on the back of the biggest sque...

ECONOMIC headwinds are making it hard going in the economy.  The eurozone is expected to have been in deflation during March, with headline prices falling 0.1 percent on the year earlier. German unemployment is likely to have ticked up a notch i...

Leave campaigners suggest that the value to U.K. of the EU as a tariff and barrier-free trade market is overstated. Britain can make better alone with its former empire and up and comers such as China. This chart highlights the limits of that theory....

DUNDEE should refuse to force unemployed people to do unpaid work in exchange for benefits, the city’s poverty task force said. The Government’s Workfare programme makes people on benefits carry out unpaid work to gain experience to...