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‘The IT behind the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) flagship welfare programme is “completely unworkable, badly designed, and already out of date”, according to a jobcentre employee, who was speaking to Channel 4′s Dispatches. […]

Fiona Woolf, former president of the Law Society and current Lord Mayor of London, was the victim of a kangaroo court – but she was wrong to take the job chairing the government inquiry into […]

Labour MP links Leon Brittan to 80s child abuse claims: Amid row over historic sex crimes inquiry, former Home Secretary named in Commons, reports the Mail Onlline: A Labour MP has used parliamentary privilege to […]

‘Fury has erupted after it has been revealed MPs will NOT have to pay a proposed mansion tax. Instead, taxpayers will have to foot the bill of the swingeing annual levy, under current MPs expenses […]

From an article in The Independent: Today in unnerving statistics, a poll has found more Britons believe in aliens and ghosts than God. The survey of 1,500 adults and 500 children, carried out online for […]

From The Independent (source):  The Welsh notice on this cash machine literally translates as ‘free erection’.                                     Tesco, […]

Meet the 12-year-old with IQ higher than Einstein and Stephen Hawking. A 12 year old school girl in Liverpool, England has a higher IQ score than Albert Einstein. She scored 162, which is two points […]

‘Support for Ukip has surged to a record high following the surprise attempt by Brussels to levy a £1.7bn “surcharge” on Britain, a ComRes survey for the Independent reveals today. The results are a major […]

David Cameron has refused to endorse a magazine campaign that supports feminism, despite both Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband putting their names to it. The deputy prime minister and the leader of the opposition (usually […]