Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Ireland has the highest expenditure rate on unemployment in the EU, according to the European Commission’s statistics agency Eurostat. It found Ireland spends twice the European average on unemployment costs. The Department of Social Protec...

The Daily Mail reported yesterday that up to 2,000 illegal immigrants, mainly Africans and Asians, had arrived in Calais – migrants who it said “will be able to claim benefits if they fail to find jobs” in the UK. All a lot of the usual misreporting...

Wanted: Drug Users for Drug Tests: U.S. pharmaceutical companies are recruiting thousands of recreational drug users to clinical trials as the industry races to develop a new generation of “abuse-deterrent” opioid painkillers. Officials have estimate...

Two of the U.K.’s biggest energy companies are axing some 12,500 jobs as low oil prices continue to wreak havoc across the industry. Some 6,500 of those will be worldwide staff and contractor positions at Shell, the other 6,000 in Centrica’s U.K. ope...

We recently called in to our local library to use the internet. We found that as we opened our browser our laptop froze, the mouse stopped working, the screen froze, and that was the end of our session. Having rebooted again and again with the same r...

Recently we have been busy attempting to get an overdraft to cover a grant we have received for camera kit and other items: (£1,500). We have to pay out the money and then evidence ‘the-spend’.  Not just get an invoice, but to show the grant mak...

We received this email this morning and on this occasion I have decided to reproduce the actual email itself. The Office of Marie Rimmer MP are seeing that ABC members and website visitors are kept up to date with this important information about thi...

New Inquiry into Benefit Delivery The Work and Pensions Committee is launching a new inquiry into the timeliness and accuracy of benefit delivery by the DWP. Potential problems that can arise when benefits are delayed or underpaidinclude people...

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman is facing a revolt Scores of Labour MPs are expected to defy an instruction to abstain on the government welfare bill, which includes plans to limit child tax credit to two children. Three of the four leadership co...

The Sun have courted controversy over the future Her Majesty the Queen, doing a Nazi salute. At least it is not Price Harry on this occasion.   The video  it is claimed was most likely filmed between 1933 and 1934, after Hitler's rise...