Enough is enough: £26,000 p.a. is enough

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 [...]

ADHD: Its obvious why the unscrupulous poor want Ritalin but why do the middle classes?

The BBC has recently published a controversial article in which it quoted claims from headteachers that some families are seeking diagnoses of ADHD for their children for financial reasons. Predicatably, the article has stimulated some hysterical hyperactivity amongst middle class mumsnetters, who now fear that it the BBC is making it appear that all parents [...]