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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

More on the garbage that the DWP and government talk when they say that the aim of ESA cuts and fit-for-work assessments is to encourage sick or disabled people into work: As readers of this site will ...

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 ...

I’ve recently noticed a real increase in the number of people coming to my site on search terms re: how to claim benefits when homeless. Picking out search terms is hardly a formal measure of a trend, ...

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 ...