Cutting Backwards: The Policy That Forgot the People

Welfare reform doesn’t have to be cruel. Labour just chose to make it that way - and called it courage.

I want to start this post with an apology. Over the past few months, while I’ve been busy tracking Mango Mussolini and the flying monkeys he’s summoned here in the UK, I’ve neglected some of the quietly devastating things happening on our own doorstep. That’s on me, and there's no real excuse for that. I should have done better.

I know exactly why I got …