On the same weekend the BBC finally screened Ken Loach’s harrowing “I Daniel Blake”, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions announced she was reviewing the roll-out of Universal Credit, the government’s notorious new benefit system. Coincidence? Looking at the mainstream media coverage you could be forgiven for thinking that a new and more
Universal Credit delayed, and the false dawn of basic income
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