Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Former service personnel in Wales deserve better support when they return from service, Plaid Cymru has said. Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood set out her party’s commitment to veterans, in order to support veterans to make a full contribution to...

In the US the retail industry is slowly atrophying, and there's proof: more and more shopping malls are closing. Dead shopping malls even have their own website. The malls are primarily those that are not high-end or low-end. Earlier this y...

Earlier in 2015 a coalition of national Churches and charities has criticised the Department for Work and Pensions over its refusal to undertake a full review of the benefit sanctions system. The DWP has issued its overdue response to the Work and Pe...

Thinking about your future over Christmas? Are we producing too many graduates for too small a pool of jobs? The Work Foundation has not found this to be the case. This Work Foundation report Unemployed and Overqualified can be downloaded below and i...

The finding in today’s Salary Movement Report conducted by Mercer, that 97% of employers plan to give their workers a raise in 2016 means that more and more people are feeling the benefits of a recovery that is bedding in across the economy. It...

The NHS are encouraging everyone to be aware of health services available over the Christmas and New Year bank holidays.  If you are unfortunately ill over the festive holidays, please consider these ways of getting treatment, with further onlin...

Out with two party politics in th Spainsh General Election, 20 December. Weeks of negociations are anticipated to follow.  For more than 30 years, the Popular Party (PP) and Socialists had alternated power, but they now find themselves chal...

Over the past 30 years the number of post offices in the UK has almost halved, although numbers have remained stable over the last few years. The Post Office Network stood at 11,634 at the end of March 2015. One thing that seems to be missing this Ch...

Universal Credit say the government, gives you the support you need to prepare for work, move into work, or earn more. In return it’s your responsibility to do everything you can to find work or increase your earnings. It is available to people...

According to recent research Almost half of families who don’t already own their own home believe they’ll never do so (and only a third think they will definitely buy) 57 per cent of non-owners in the poorest 20 p...