In which I come a poor second to Jules Birch in drawing out the parallels between the problems with the1983 housing benefit changes as recounted by Nicholas Timmins and the current worries about Universal Credit
Reflections on a week of exceptionally dismal welfare coverage, followed by some historical cross-national analysis of trends in working age welfare spending.
Employment is at its highest levels on record, as ministers like to point out: what they omit to point out is that this particular record has been broken 139 times since 1971, including 74 times under the last government.
