Youth Contract Articles

Welcome to the Department for Work and Pensions. Your new department spends more public money than we spend on the police, schools, hospitals, railways and international development combined. Nearly 20 per cent of government expenditure is spent on benefits, excluding...

Today unemployment has dropped by 66,000: very welcome news indeed for the government, which has increasingly  come under attack in recent months over its ‘omnishambles’ of budget U-turns and  general handling of the economy. These latest figures mark the fourth...

None of us know exactly what’s happening at the heart of the coalition. We like to take pot-shots at the Lib Dems for propping up George Osborne’s relentless drive towards the establishment of ‘free’ markets in every corner of civil society. And there is no doubt...