Has the Benefit Cap cut your housing benefit?

Has the Benefit Cap cut your housing benefit?

Benefits are supposed to reflect actual living costs. Of course they are pretty mean – you are not expected to be able to enjoy yourself or even maintain a decent standard of living – but if a household gets large amounts in benefits, this is because there are extra...
My first blog aka my first of many vents

My first blog aka my first of many vents

For many years I have hemmed and hawed about expressing my views through writing and now here I am with my first blog. Reason being, I’ve never been one to hold back from expressing my own personal views and opinions about various aspects of the Travelling Community...
The Cultural Impacts of Fracking

The Cultural Impacts of Fracking

This is the approximate content of a talk I delivered at the Festival of the Celts on 24th July. Fracking has become one of those issues that gets under your skin (quite literally in some cases – more of which soon) and really energises communities of all sorts. This...