Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee  UC in-work progression: “A new kind of welfare, delivered by a new kind of public servant” The Work and Pensions Select Committee today says the employment support service for in-w...

The Trussell Trust was founded in 1997, by Paddy and Carol Henderson while working with street children in Bulgaria at Sofia Central Railway Station. Named for Carol's mother Betty Trussell from whom they had received a legacy, the couple's...

House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee The Committee will hold its first hearing with new Work and Pensions Secretary, Stephen Crabb on Wednesday 11 May 2016 at 09.30am in the Wilson Room, Portcullis House. The topics covered will includ...

The European Union is a "force for social injustice" which backs "the haves rather than the have-nots", Iain Duncan Smith has said in a keynote speech (10/05/2016). According to the BBC, Duncan Smith appealed to people "who may have done OK from...

Word is spreading about the ABC and we are continuing to build relations in Europe.  On the 22nd June to the 12th July, ABC founder Simon Collyer is part of a team (*3) led by Sir Anthony Seldon, walking from the Switzerland border to Nieuwpoort...

The SNP has today called on Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb to “rethink the Universal Credit debacle” in light of recent research showing how watered down the Tories’ new flagship benefit has become. A Children’s Soc...

While to poor are expected to trudge to food banks, Dinner in the Sky now operates in 55 countries.  This puke inducing idea has one floor. There are no toilets. That seems to rather asking for trouble in the sorts of dinners we go too. Lets hop...

Have any bright ideas about getting Europe growing again?:  If so, submit them to McKinsey Global Institute by July 31 for a chance to win €60,000. The consulting giant says its essay contest is “aimed at crowdsourcing solutions to on...

THE US Jobs market: The economy added 160,000 jobs in April, the Labor Department reported Friday, down from 208,000 jobs in March. Unemployment was at 5 percent, unchanged from March. The figures were worse than expected; April’s jobs numbers...

Scottish police are assessing whether to launch a criminal investigation into the failure of two government ministers to address a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the “fitness for work” test, a failure which may have caused...