There’s a troubling pattern in how welfare spending is discussed at the moment. Too often, the debate gets reduced to distortion, people divided into “deserving” and “undeserving” categories, as if…

Leasehold living is meant to provide stability. For me and my wife, it has become a source of anxiety and misery. Our very modest little flat is losing value, not because of the bricks and mortar, …

Kemi Badenoch says it’s time for Britain to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. She frames it as a question of sovereignty, control, and national interest. But for citizens with disabili…

Hertfordshire’s local government, like much of the UK, now stands at a pivotal moment. Citizens tell me they feel increasingly disconnected from county councillors, who rarely engage beyond staged …

As a social worker, I’ve witnessed the devastating toll of austerity under successive Conservative governments, and now Labour is following suit, cloaking their cuts in deceptive rhetoric. Keir Sta…

When the Care Quality Commission (CQC) recently issued its first inadequate rating for Blackpool Council adult social care services, it wasn’t just a headline. It was a moment of truth. The Communi…

The delayed release of the 2023 Learning from Lives and Deaths (LeDeR) report, meant to investigate the deaths of learning disabled and autistic people in England is not just a bureaucratic hiccup.…