Iain Duncan-Smith is taking an awful lot of flak from bishops, the liberal media elite and hand-wringing Liberals, such as Paddy Ashdown, about his plans to cap benefits at the median take-home wage of working families – £26,000 per year. Why have we become trapped by this materialistic concept of child poverty, itself a remnant of [...]
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From Enron to News cantankerous is always interested in the background of lawyers in the news. Interesting, isn’t it, that Jon Chapman, the News International Director of Legal Affairs, to whom the correspondence in Robert Peston’s ‘smoking gun’ News of the World police corruption scoop is addressed, worked as a senior in-house solicitor at Enron from 1996 until [...] Zoe Williams writes in the Guardian that All Iain Duncan Smith’s rot about marriage disguises a tired old taboo as Duncan-Smith seeks to paint ‘cohabiting couples as an aberration.’ Well, marriage is certainly better for all concerned, particularly children but also the state, than the many income-supported south-London mothers creating their own poverty-stricken microcosms of [...] |
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