Watching A4e

It's not been a comfortable week for the Conservatives.  HSBC, Stephen Green, tax avoidance, and that "black and white ball" w...

That's the slogan for this year's Conservative Party Conference - although they're all forgetting and referring to "hardwor...

The noises coming out of the Conservative party conference suggest strongly that something like "Work for your Benefit" is on the ...

First we note that Jim Knight, who had to defend the last government's actions on welfare-to-work, lost his seat at the general election...

"But they shouldn’t be doing that, there is no life on the dole anymore for people, if you’re unemployed you’ve got to go back to work....

A recap of some history. The last Conservative government faced growing unemployment, particularly amongst young people, and the fact that ...

The Flexible New Deal contracts have only just got under way, but already seem irrelevant. The Conservatives have said that they will ...

The Conservatives are making much of their welfare-to-work policy. But the BBC's Nick Robinson, on his blog , has pointed out that the ...

The Conservatives' plans for a "Work Programme" will hearten all welfare-to-work contractors. "Tories would force jobles...