Benefits of work: why the Tory welfare plan won’t work

Making work pay is fine rhetoric but it is fantasy to expect a profit-motivated private sector with an excess labour supply to deliver a society where work pays. As long as workers are superfluous, work cannot provide dignity and livelihood.

 

Caffeine Nation - testing the East London disloyalty card over one day

 

It's the world of tomorrow for these people with "portable computers" and "mobile cellular phones"

 

NY Times Magazine discovers Dalston, correctly identifies it as 'hippie fantasy come true'

 

Even fictional pubs are now being shut down by Enterprise Inns

 

Update: cat binning lady now under police protection

 

Seven hundred babies were born into poverty in Britain today. Also, baby Cameron was born

 

Not everyone loves Dalston (Italian Vogue excluded)

 

George Michael pleads guilty to driving into Hampstead camera shop

 

Soho public baths re-open after 13 years

 

Snipe Highlights

Some popular articles from past years

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  2. Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
  3. Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
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  5. Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
  6. Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
  7. Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
  8. A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
  9. An interview with Desiree Akhavan
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