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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To Millennium House in Stockport this morning, where caseworkers at the Stockport Universal Credit centre were on strike. The strikers say that the centre doesn’t have the staff to provide Universal ...

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 ...

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 ...