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Benefits and targets: Sickness and disability are not the same, Health

Benefits and targets: Sickness and disability are not the same

“Do you have the potential to return to work?” states Chris Grayling, Minister for Employment. It seems a very reasonable question, and when the idea of Employment Support Allowance was initially mooted during the mid noughties at a time of high employment and economic boom it was an admirable aim.

By | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 3:05 pm

Top of the posts: Fascism in football, sexism on the street and ruffling royalist feathers, Notebook

Top of the posts: Fascism in football, sexism on the street and ruffling royalist feathers

The most read blogs this week, as determined by stats.

By | Notebook | Friday, 1 June 2012 at 5:22 pm

Panorama: Stadiums of Hate – a Polish fan’s response from the stands, Sport

Panorama: Stadiums of Hate – a Polish fan’s response from the stands

Crossing the line is a tough thing to do, even if you step on someone’s foot or make a mistake that hurts. When the BBC aired their programme just few days before Euro 2012 kicks off, one would think that the state of Polish football is determined by what is happening on the stands. And if you are to believe the programme there is Nazism, racism and anti-Semitism everywhere.

By | Sport | Thursday, 31 May 2012 at 1:55 pm

Will it be the BBC wot lost it?, Notebook

Will it be the BBC wot lost it?

For older generations of football fans, the BBC will always be inextricably linked to the 1966 World Cup final thanks to its commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme and his famous phrase: “They think it’s all over, it is now.”

By | Notebook | Tuesday, 16 November 2010 at 3:10 pm

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