High court finds that two claimants caring for relatives for upwards of 35 hours a week were effectively in work and should be exempt from cap The welfare secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, unlawfully discriminated against disabled people by failing to exempt their carers from the benefit cap, a high court judge has ruled.
Honest doubt I wrote on Syria last week that I was "mystified by those who've already made their minds up with cast-iron certainty on either side". That's still the case despite, and probably because of, the eruption of passions leading up to and beyond Wednesday's vote. The UK is, after all, already involved in military action against Isis in Iraq. Sure, extending those airstrikes to Syria represents an intensification and, like any bombing campaign, requires serious consideration. But that is a question not of basic morality (if it were there should have been an equally strenuous efforts to cease attacks in Iraq) but of likely effectiveness.
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Despite what many Eurosceptics will be peddling, the EU accounts have been signed off by the European Court of Auditors ...
As the tide of war turned in 1942 following the second battle of El Alamein, Winston Churchill spoke about "the end of the beginning". I have to confess that these words went through my mind as I sat through many hours of TV parliamentary debate on Wednesday on whether or not to bomb Daesh in Syria. For those who are cynical about the goings on at Westminster, this was an occasion that illustrated perfectly how important our parliamentary democracy really is.
In its draft local plan - see http://rugbylibdems.org.uk/rugby-local-plan - Rugby Borough Council are paving the way for 12,400 houses.