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Monday, August 4, 2025
I’ve come across an interesting email among the FOI disclosures from the member Trusts of the South-West NHS pay cartel. I believe that this...

‘Benefits and work’

 We have confirmation that the DWP is actively considering axeing employment and support allowance (ESA) payments for claimants who challenge a decision that they...
The first achievement highlighted by the Prime Minister in his Sunday Times article was deficit reduction: "We’ve got the deficit down by a quarter...

Double Standards

This week, a British youth named Azhar Ahmed was found guilty of the crime of causing offence. Following the massacre of Afghans by, according...
A mixed picture for the people of Dorset. By far the worst figures locally are in Weymouth and Portland who sit at 71st out...

Murder at Marikana

In a tumble of boulders quite near the hill called Wonderkop, yellow spray paint defaces the ancient granite. This is not graffiti, yet something...
The Tory right, friends of chancellor George Osborne, are now arguing openly that they want Britain's living and working standards to meet Asia's. There was...
I have just come back from the DPAC Organised protest against Atos over their treatment of the disabled on Employment Support Allowance (ESA). The...
Below is a letter I have written to a national newspaper on the subject of fair and equal treatment of the Paralympics on behalf...

Consequences of Regional Pay

Plans for regional pay rates for Dorset NHS workers will have far reaching consequences for the county's economy, it's being claimed.The South West TUC's...