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Politics does not matter- or does it?
Michaela and I were sitting looking miserably into our tea cups today and talking about the vote in parliament to cut welfare payments. All this depressing divisive and stigmatizing talk of ‘strivers...
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Vilifying the ‘other’- benefits and dehumanisation…
A few days ago I was having a conversation with some friends about my experience of claiming unemployment benefit last year. In the room where a couple of doctors, two ministers of religion and a buyer...
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Growing up as a scrounger; confessions of a child of the welfare state…
Here I am, aged about 8 or 9, on the back row of my class picture from Croft Primary school. Someone posted this picture on Facebook and it all came flooding back. I am the one in the strange yellow …...
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