by The Editor | Mar 3, 2018 | Politics
Reported in Scottish Housing News today: ‘Key benefits will be future-proofed to ensure they hold their value in real terms under Scotland’s new social security system, social security minister Jeane Freeman has said. Following earlier commitments to have annual rises...
by The Editor | Mar 3, 2018 | International
This video says about itself: 02/04/2007 Jan Ruff-O’Herne told her shocking story on Australian Story in 2001 – a secret that took her 50 years to come to terms with before finally, she revealed it in a letter to her two daughters. An idyllic childhood in Java was...
by The Editor | Mar 3, 2018 | Politics
There’s a problem in all of this talk of ‘amending’ Brexit-related legislation. To be more accurate, there are a great many problems in all this. But I want to focus on just one. Or maybe two, if something else occurs to me while I’m writing, as often happens. The...
by The Editor | Mar 3, 2018 | Politics
Many of us have said previously that the government’s ‘flagship’ policy, Universal Credit (UC), is about implementing further cuts to welfare support by stealth. However, the loss of income to disabled people through hidden cuts has been under-reported. Despite the...
by The Editor | Mar 3, 2018 | International
Since the scandal of the Democrats’ emails leaked, the inauguration of Donald Trump and the New York Times-triggered wave of investigations of numerous bot accounts regularly posting pro-Republican messages on the social networks, Russia has been increasingly accused...