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) ...

Nobody wants to overblow these things, but there are times when council abuse of homeless women really goes next level. You really do get standout moments. Here’s the one I want to talk about: An ...

In my latest podcast episode, we take more piss out of Liz Kendall and Keir Starmer’s barely-watered-down plans to cut PIP and disability benefits. We talk about the fact that one of the reasons that ...

I’ve been sent the slug gallery below by a resident of a flat in Newham. R and their family (including a toddler and a very young baby) were homeless. They were living in the Newham Brimstone House ...

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 ...

Work is the cure for all ills, all you have to do is find someone who is willing to employ people in their 60s, or work that is suitable, i.e. not “fast paced” agency work, not 12 hour shifts rotating ...

Surprise, Liz – people actually die when you leave them nothing to live on I’ve made this podcast series to talk about the unspeakable effects that 15 years of cuts to disability benefits and support ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was a fun one to start the weekend on: On Saturday, I took the picture below. It shows a six-year-old girl who lives in temporary accommodation in Marlin Apartments in Stratford. Newham council ...

Back to homelessness in East London – where Newham council tells Maya and Rakib, a homeless couple with two very young children, that a flat with smashed and broken storage sheds and no floor ...

On the subject of actual shit repairs: Visited a part-council block in Newham on the weekend, to take pictures of mould, water and sewerage running down the walls (more on that soon). Went into the ...