Hackney council could show discretion and grant the family a tenancy, or at least withdraw the bailiff’s warrant to give the family more time to sort things out – and even for the council to work with ...

Next week, the family will be evicted by bailiffs, because Kyla’s name is not on the tenancy. She thought it was, because she’s been paying the council rent in her name. Turns out that was a use and ...

I talk to Kyla, who has an autistic and disabled son aged 8. Kyla, her son and her daughter live in a council flat in Hackney. Kyla has been there for 18 years. Next week, the family will be evicted ...

Answer to the question in the title is No. One thing I really love is this government’s heavy implication that anyone who claims benefits for mental health problems is taking the piss. So, in this ...

To our last podcast episode for this year: This episode is about useless millennium governments that are devoted to attacking benefit claimants and cutting disability benefits for votes. Doesn’t ...

It’s interviews with parents who have autistic children and serious housing issues. There’s also plenty of snark about the right wing sociopaths and cringing centrist wallies who pass as political ...

Here’s season 2 from my podcast. This season takes a close and hopefully scathing look at the vile Liz Kendall and her plans to cut disability benefits and the personal independence payment. That ...

As a person who has been campaigning for benefits and decent housing for all for more than 20 years, I have to ask – does Liz Kendall not realise that the job of destroying disability benefits and ...

Stockport has a second jobcentre now, so that’s where I’m taking you today. We’ve been hearing about this second jobcentre for a while. We’ve also been hearing that this second jobcentre is the one ...

My latest podcast episode on Liz Kendall’s plans to cut disability benefits and support money: “Forget Kendall’s bollocks about protecting disabled people who are “most” in need (whatever that means) ...

To the real world then! – and the “time to boot lazy old and/or disabled benefit claimants into work” concepts launched at claimants yesterday by legendary civic thinker Jeremy Hunt. Can’t wait for ...