Unemployment is on the rise again, and with it comes the rhetoric of the right. We hear talk of the ‘workshy’, we hear people on benefits referred to as ‘scroungers’, and of a ‘dependency culture‘ in which it is suggested that the unemployed just aren’t trying to find work. Mr Humphrys is neither the first nor [...]

I have a Facebook account. I’m not entirely sure why I have a Facebook account, because it basically alternates between boring the shit out of me and irritating me (hi, Facebook friends!) but I have one nevertheless. One of the things which is increasingly common on Facebook (and other social media – Google+, I’m looking [...]