sunbeams out of cucumbers

The moral authority of the charity worker

On lanyards and .org email addresses

Aug 11 • 

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May 2025

More tales of DWP newspeak

Are work coaches intentionally obstinate? I suspect the answer is more complex

May 19 • 

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March 2025

some suggested cost savings for DWP

the benefits system has become "unsustainable" (like it does in every parliament)

Mar 25 • 

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Do people sometimes tell you that you smell bad?

part two of my dwp series, as the great british state continues to try to define what constitutes “being disabled”, reporting from the semi-frontline in…

Mar 16 • 

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I'm going to start sending DWP a bill for my services

some beautiful tales about the legacy benefits migration to universal credit, currently occurring across the public sector

Mar 8 • 

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December 2024

The mythical world of exempt "supported" housing

Henry Smith of Aitch Group and his charitable endeavours helping the homeless in Deptford, Tottenham and beyond

Dec 23, 2024 • 

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May 2024

March 2024

Juvenal and The Guardian are right (again); Landlords first against the wall

have landlords always been evil, or is it a societal sickness borne of New Labour?

Mar 24, 2024 • 

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the public service merry go round

more reasons to hate public sector commissioning, thanks again Thatcher

Mar 13, 2024 • 

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February 2024

Safeguarding, or rather, kicking off to get public service workers to panic

a warning that this contains discussion of suicide, among other things

Feb 26, 2024 • 

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August 2023

Politics vs Policy and Wes Streeting's memoir

Does today's Labour Party understand what it means to rely on "sad, soulless" public services?

Aug 5, 2023 • 

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July 2023