Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Under a proposal contained in the State Pension age review, the State Pension age will increase to 68 between 2037 and 2039. Under current legislation, the State Pension age will rise to 68 between 2044 and 2046. The change, which is subject to parli...

As part of HMRC’s crackdown on white-collar tax evasion, it has launched 669 in 2016/17 compared to 499 in 2011/12, according to research from law firm Pinsent Masons. Overall, the total number of property raids undertaken by HMRC rose 8%...

Pimlico’s chief executive Charlie Mullins was determined to appeal the case brought by Gary Smith, a self-employed plumber who had worked solely for the business for six years, after the Appeal Court decided he was entitled to basic worke...

The Government has been urged to delay the introduction of radical changes to the benefits system amid fears it will plunge families into debt over Christmas. MPs have written a letter calling on the Department for Work and Pensions to rethink p...

The cruel regime created by Iain Duncan Smith is slowly being dismantled.  Thousands of benefit claimants have won what is a major legal victory over the Tory government's welfare program. This was a case was brought by two disabled women who ch...

White collar crime prosecutions fell from 9,489 in 2015 to 8,304 last year. Since 2011, when there were 11,261 prosecutions, there has been a 26% drop in prosecutions. Meanwhile the number of reported fraud offences increased 4% in the last year, to...

The latest data on deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales for 2016 has been published today.  Over half (54%) of all deaths related to drug poisoning in 2016 involved an opiate (mainly heroin and / or morphine), while people aged...

The concept of a job for life has come to an end, but is the Universal Basic income the solution or is this a case of business just passing over all the unemployed they are creating onto the government and the taxpayer. This podcast from the RSA atte...

We already featured the Gig Economy review by Martheww Taylor, Chair of the Royal Society of Arts. We did not however feature the whole report which is below. Why does the Taylor report we think good work matters? Because despite the impact of the na...

We already featured the Gig Economy review by Martheww Taylor, Chair of the Royal Society of Arts. We did not however feature the whole report which is below. Why does the Taylor report we think good work matters? Because despite the impact of the na...