Might it not be cheaper just to give people the money?

@telegraph's dismay at war on disabled.

Peter Birks on the proposed mortgage guarantee scheme.

"Work Capability Assessment puts people with mental illness, autism and learning difficulties at a substantial disadvantage." But the UK government defends its position in the war on the disabled.

British business leaders doing their best.

Predictions from 1997; no Cameron, Miliband or Clegg!

An Atos whistleblower's tale of the war on the disabled.

by one M. Thatcher.

Another Euromyth busted.

"there is one certain way to make life harder for children to acquire Standard English: creating tests that fail them."

Peter Kellner (Mr Ashton): referendum (if it happens) will pass.

Brilliant but very long: "Do you know what a Blue Letter is? Do you think Focus is a noun? What does the term Shuttleworth mean to you? Have you met Erlend?" Yes, that last one is the real test!

Taking the British government's war on the disabled to a new front.

in Scotland, so presumably elsewhere too.

"an inaccessible courtroom, so the people who brought the action couldn't get into the room to hear the verdict."

No. The UK's coalition govt is lying.

"designed to work with the following operating systems and browsers. Many of these are no longer available."

Scrap it!

More from the UK government's war on the poor.

Rather a non-apology, if you ask me. "If we get something wrong then I'm very happy to say sorry."

"And what about higher education? If we can’t (honestly) sell it to the students or the taxpayers on the basis of the labour-market advantages it will bring to them and their families, what can we do? Essentially, we have to persuade people that being better educated is more of a good in itself even if not an effective means to an end. We may…

She selected herself, apparently!

The truth behind the very dodgy figures.

"If your empathetic instincts have been too dulled to feel a common humanity with those at the bottom of the hierarchy of public approval, remember this: the abuse that is hurled on to those on the bottom eventually infects us all. "

The activists speak.

1) take the money away, 2) prevent any complaining about it.

The UK govt's war on the vulnerable.

Many questions, no answers.

Chote is an old mate, but this is a solid critique!