Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Tesco and FareShare are calling on charities and community groups in Angus to register for an exciting new scheme which will see unsold food become meals for vulnerable people. As part of its ongoing pledge to cut food waste, Tesco’s Community...

US job machine sputters, may give the Fed pause:   The new U.S. job creation data for August came in at 151,000, down from 275,000 in July. Analysts had predicted job growth of about 175,000, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists. Meanwh...

A sanction is a reduction in the amount of JSA which would otherwise be payable.  Sanctions imposed on thousands of benefit claimants for not taking part in the DWP’s so-called “back-to-work” schemes are unlawful; a court ruled...

Theresa May rules out second EU referendum as cabinet meets at Chequers. The facts are: the UK must keep most EU workers or face jobs crisis: A new Brexit impact assessment by the House of Commons shows there are at least 2.2 million n...

The Trussell Trust has opened their 50th foodbank in Scotland – showing the grim result of Tory austerity and welfare cuts.   The charity, the largest provider of food parcels in the country, issued more than 130,000 supplies of food in 20...

British consumer confidence recovers (slightly) post-BREXIT: Consumer confidence in Britain rose in August, according to a survey by research firm Gfk, though it still recovered its second-lowest level in over two years. The ...

The Disability News service has reported that paralympians heading to Rio next week have lost their Motability vehicles after being reassessed as part of the government’s programme of benefit cuts and reforms, a member of the ParalympicsGB team...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to publish nine secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants, despite finally admitting that seven of them relate to people who took their own lives. DWP only released the information afte...

Antony Jay, co-writer of Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, aged 86. Wonderful program. 

UK tax crackdown — fines to rise to three times the evaded amount: In a consultation exercise that will run until October 19, HM Revenue & Customs seeks to increase fines for tax evaders who do not voluntarily come forwa...