I’ve made this podcast series to talk about the unspeakable effects that 15 years of cuts to disability benefits and support have had on disabled people.

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 ...

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 ...

Am working on another book this year, so there will a bit of a lag between posts from time to time.

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 ...

Stockport has a second jobcentre now, so that’s where I’m taking you today. We’ve been hearing about this second jobcentre for a while. We’ve also been hearing that this second jobcentre is the one ...

Today we’re taking a brief break from DWP ballsups to talk about council ones. Readers of this site may remember a story I posted earlier this year about N. N is disabled, homeless and a mother to 2 ...

There is another meeting of Newham council on Monday 29 September 2014 in the council chamber at Newham Town Hall at 8pm. Details here. Below is a report of an amazing Newham council meeting earlier ...

Yesterday, I rang the Universal Credit helpline number (0345 600 4272) to ask about DWP support for Universal Credit claimants who have learning and literacy difficulties, and who struggle to use ...

We go back to Marlin Apartments in Stratford, where homeless families live 4 and 5 to a single room – around which they are pursued by militias of rats, mice, bedbugs, cockroaches, tiny flies and ...

New mayor of Newham Rokhsana Fiaz has emailed Sara to say that she will look into Sara’s housing problems asap. I will post any updates. There’s a bigger issue here for Labour, though. When are Labour ...

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 ...