People with neurodivergent conditions can often be spectacularly successful. The Virgin boss, Richard Branson, is dyslexic. Great national leaders such as Winston Churchill were depressives. ADHD used ...

Britain’s welfare bill has ballooned, with 23 per cent of the working-age population now in receipt of some form of benefits, figures analysed by The Independent reveal. Labour has branded the ...

Cheryl Drew, who made headlines for her unapologetic approach to life, says Labour’s plan to scrap the two-child cap is wrong ...

Britain's number one benefits hotspot: Birmingham Nagalinagam Kuganathan, 55, has been unemployed for a year and is on job seeker's allowance. He says he is desperate for work but that there has not ...

Imagine you’re the Welfare Secretary. Under your watch, unemployment reaches its highest level since a once-in-a-century pandemic. Benefit claims surge. Yet counter-intuitively, the number of people ...

Britain's well-earned title as the 'Sick Man of Europe' needs changing to 'The Sick/Idle man of Europe'. This week shock figures revealed that more than half-a-million people on sickness benefits have ...

And amid the gloom, there are reasons to be cheerful. This year Georgia Banjo, a colleague in The Economist ’s Britain ...

Benefits Britain has been recommissioned by Channel 5. A further 12 episodes of the documentary series, which launched on June 16, will be split into two separate runs. What to Read Next Benefits ...

Young Brits are finally putting two and two together and realising that Labour’s UK is nothing like the future we were promised. Benefits Britain is spiralling out of control, and the most infuriating ...

Britain is heading towards a £400 billion annual welfare bill, with one in every four pounds spent by government going on benefits by 2030, forecasts reveal. Britain is heading towards a £400billion-a ...