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  • 1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Ross Clark

    According to official figures from the Department for Work and Pensions, benefits fraud costs the taxpayer £9.5 billion a year. But does anyone really believe it isn’t higher, given the massive rise in people apparently so incapacitated by poor mental health that they are incapable of working? It transpires that Liz Kendall’s efforts to save the taxpayer £5 billion a year will do nothing of the sort.

  • 1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Ross Clark

    According to official figures from the Department for Work and Pensions, benefits fraud costs the taxpayer £9.5 billion a year. But does anyone really believe it isn’t higher, given the massive rise in people apparently so incapacitated by poor mental health that they are incapable of working? It transpires that Liz Kendall’s efforts to save the taxpayer £5 billion a year will do nothing of the sort.

  • 1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Ross Clark

    Year by year, the tale of HS2 grows more wretched. The latest report on the fiasco, by James Stewart, former chief executive of Crossrail, depicts contractors behaving like a gang that tarmacs driveways taking advantage of an octogenarian widow. Endless wheezes have been devised to drive up costs, with HS2 Ltd – the government-owned company set up to handle the project – seemingly too gullible to prevent itself from being ripped off.

  • 1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Ross Clark

    As if the saga of HS2 could not get any worse, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander will reportedly announce today that, actually, the railway line will not be open by its latest proposed date of 2033, and that 2035 is now more realistic. But I wouldn’t book your ticket just yet. Some analysts believe the line – which is a truncated version of the original proposal, only reaching Birmingham – will not be open for a couple of years or so after that.

  • 1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Ross Clark

    ‘Poundland sells for a pound’ is one of those stories of which sub-editors dream – not to mention the beleaguered company’s PR department. But irony aside, the news does draw attention to a paradox: why do discount stores seem to suffer more in bad economic times than they do in good times?

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Ross Clark @RossjournoClark
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thinking that trams will win over the North is part of Labour's problem https://t.co/dfnDUkJQOU

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it's Net Zero, stupid. Why @Nigel_Farage is advancing in Scotland https://t.co/VgkEC13wD6

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why do people call #ReformUK 'right wing' when it wants to nationalise stuff and increase benefits? https://t.co/ca0qSmOz0J