Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

We contacted the TUC when we started out, and we humbly asked could the ABC be recognised in some way? We are not a union as we do not do collective bargaining, but recognition as a 'workers association' would have been much appreciated. I was NOT ma...

Small businesses in the North of England could soon receive loans of up to £750,000, as the government-backed British Business Bank (BBB) announces the launch of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund. Financed by the BBB and the European...

The EU countries are hugely important trade partners for the UK. In 2016, the EU for 48% of goods exports from the UK, while goods imports from the EU were worth more than imports from the rest of the world combined. For exports, trade in goods and s...

Binge eating disorder is an illness where people overeat on a regular basis. A binge is an episode of excessive eating or drinking. People who binge eat very large quantities of food over a short period-of-time, even when they're not hungry. Sig...

The Universal Credit Programme, led by Neil Couling, has completed the national roll-out of the Live Service say the DWP, and is rolling out the Full Service to a further 5 jobcentres each month. There are now 450,000 claimants on Universal Credit th...

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...

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...