Image shows a white male in a black hoodie, who looks unhappy A recent article found that 80% of British workers report experiencing violence or abuse in the workplace. Eighty. Percent. Eight out of ten people are made to feel some level of non-task-related concern for their personal safety when they think about showing up for work. I wonder if that might have any connection with the "endemic state" of "people claiming they're too mentally unwell to work" that the UK government keeps throwing shade about? Might the "failure to cope with normal human experience" that snide, comfortably-financed, well-protected MPs snarl about and threaten to reduce people to absolute poverty for "not just getting over" actually be a much more understandable cognitive block around putting oneself in a situation where you are at risk when you did not expect that kind of risk? Employers nope out on dealing with workplace aggression, whether from colleagues or...
Image shows an elder man in a turquoise shirt sitting at a wooden table, working on a laptop The UK Parliament - not simply the current party of government, but the majority of the House of Commons - are, according to an unnamed whistleblower, and the I Paper of Thursday 16th April 2026, all in agreement that the UK State pension triple lock - the requirement that UK pensioners with at least 35 years' National Insurance contributions benefit from increases in the amount of pension they receive as a taxpayer-funded benefit rises each year by whichever is highest; inflation, average earnings, or 2.5% - needs to be reformed, but are equally all afraid to come out and talk about even the concept of reform, much less how it could look in practice. UK State pension provision currently accounts for 55% of the UK welfare bill, at £146.1billion per year. This is nearly double the £77billion pounds annually spent on supporting disabled people through St...