Quantcast
Channel: In My Shoes
Browsing all 25 articles
Browse latest View live

Multimillionaire Tony Blair agrees to pay his interns the minimum wage

The Office of Tony Blair, which helps to administrate his consultancy and diplomatic interests has agreed to pay his interns the National Minimum Wage. It was the government of Tony Blair in 1998 who...

View Article



What people really think of those on benefit

There is a vote in the House of Commons today on whether to cap benefits to a 1% rise only, for the next three years.The Tories have been queueing up to get themselves on any media platform they can so...

View Article

Who wants to be a barista?

OK it's a silly word but it would appear that as job opportunity it is surprisingly popular, at least in Mapperley which is in Nottinghamshire.The Costa coffee chain are opening up a new branch, so...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

We're happy to help George

So from Monday 1 April this Coalition Government's welfare reforms kick in - kick being the operative word. They are back to their favourite activity; kicking the poor, the needy and those in social...

View Article

Crying into my porridge

I couldn’t help but laugh when I heard there were street parties in Glasgow celebrating the long-awaited death of Maggie Thatcher last Monday. If I wasn’t living in England now I would have been there...

View Article


Fiddling while Rome burns

So the country is in a mess, I think we can all agree on that. So what are the Tories doing about it? OK we all know that there is a Coalition Government but the Conservatives are the major partner,...

View Article

Work Capability Assessments discriminate against vulnerable claimants

So judges have ruled today in favour of two claimants with mental health problems who claimed  that the test for sickness benefit would discriminate against them. The law requires that the government...

View Article

It gets worse before it gets better

I felt a bit guilty when I heard the ruling that the ESA Work Capability Assessment was unfair to people with mental health problems. I've recently gone through the same process for depression. However...

View Article


Smoke and mirrors

Evasion of tax is illegal, avoiding paying tax is not, hence the numbers of people who earn their living as accountants.The Oxford English Dictionary defines tax as : n 1 a compulsory contribution to...

View Article


Depression, Discrimination, and (no) DSS

Last year I became depressed. Really depressed. Clinically can’t-get-out-of-bed just-want-to-die depressed. So depressed I could no longer handle my job and had to go on long-term sick leave for...

View Article

Old habits die hard

So Vodafone are at it again, that is, not paying their taxes.According to Robert Peston, the BBC's business correspondent in: "one of the biggest deals in corporate history", Vodafone have just made...

View Article

that nice, sensitive Michael Gove...

Just over a week ago (10 September) the Education Secretary, Michael Gove was asked this question by Luciana Berger MP in the House of Commons: "What can he and his Government do to ensure no students...

View Article

A civil partnership made in heaven?

This week saw the first anniversary of the Coalition government. So what are we to make of it all? Here are some of the highlights.MayI vividly remember the day that Clegg and Cameron held that...

View Article


Makeover for homeless man

Below is a link to a film that has gone viral on YouTube recently, I think it speaks for itself, check it out. As a result lots of money was donated to a homeless charity called Degage Ministries in...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Mental Health England- A Car Crash

Mental Health in England is a car crash, according to the outgoing president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Prof Sue Bailey said that the mental health services are in crisis, she also accused...

View Article


Lies, posturing, defections, elections and resignations

So it is the conference season again, oh joy.The Labour conference passed by with little comment apart from the fact Ed Milliband forgot his lines and subsequently didn't mention the deficit.We had...

View Article

Cameron forgives Freudian slip

So now we know what Lord Freud really thinks of people with disabilities. Lord Freud is the Welfare Reform minister. He addressed a fringe meeting at the Tory Conference. This gave him the opportunity...

View Article


Who cares about mental health?

The mental health charity Mind issued a report this week on the quality of mental health prevention care in England. This report arose from a freedom of information request they submitted to all the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Starbucks are at it again

The European Commission, the Brussels bit, have accused the government of the Netherlands and everybody's favourite multinational, tax-avoiding coffee chain - Starbucks, of cooking up some  cosy deal...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A very modern exodus - a local housing scandal

It took Hitler's Luftwaffe to provoke the last great exodus of people from London. First went the children, evacuated en masse to the care of strangers in the countryside, and then after the war whole...

View Article
Browsing all 25 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images