On 25 October 2019, the Work and Pensions Committee published a report linking Universal Credit to ‘survival sex’. Survival sex, as explained in the report, is when someone is forced to turn to sex work […]
General Election: Which Issues Matter to Leeds?
Leeds’ eight constituencies have been divided since 2017 with 5 held by Labour and 3 by the Conservatives. With a city that voted narrowly to remain in the EU by 50.3% to 49.7%, a lot […]
Voting ID: The Solution to a Problem That Doesn’t Exist
The year is 2004, and the Labour government is seeking to legislate to ensure everyone in the UK carries a form of identification. Amongst those stood in honourable opposition to such a measure is failed […]
Big Brother on the Internet? Watchdogs and Social Media
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has published a white paper advocating for an independent internet watchdog to keep the giants of social media in check, as well as giving oversight to the […]
The Mental Health Crisis In Teaching
Across the UK, teachers have started to leave the profession faster than their replacements are being trained. The resultant drain of qualified and capable teachers from our education system has left those who remain overworked, […]
‘Meat-tax?’ A Big Mis-Steak
New findings from researchers at the University of Oxford has sparked discussion on the imposition of a ‘meat-tax’ on red and processed meat products. The study revealed the potentially lifesaving effects that such a measure […]
Tracey Crouch, Sports Minister, resigns over Fixed Betting
Image Credit: [Daily Mail] Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford and Minister for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness, has resigned as a result of delays in cutting maximum stakes on fixed betting machines. The […]
Universal Credit more like Universal Car Crash…
You may recall that in 2013, the coalition government launched a controversial new welfare policy: Universal Credit. It was designed to ‘simplify’ the current benefits system, which over 80% of the public at the time […]
Question Time Looking For Under 30s In Leeds
The popular BBC debate show, Question Time, is returning to Leeds for the first time since 2015. Due to be filmed on Thursday, March 22, at the Headingley Campus of Leeds Beckett University, the episode […]
The Office for Students: What Is It?
The Office for Students (OfS) has been in the news a lot lately, mostly for all the wrong reasons, but what is the intended purpose of this new body? The government intends the OfS to […]