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Alcoholics could lose benefits
Alcoholics could lose benefits

By politics.co.uk staff Alcoholics who fail to get treatment could see their welfare payments docked. The plans come in a review of welfare by the Department of Health and the Department for Work and Pensions. Welfare secretary James Purnell said: “We are going to look at the arrangements for alcoholics on benefits, just as we… Read more »

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In the Loop
Review: In the Loop

The best comedy of the year so far – and the satire is spot-on. By Matthew Champion There is a scene in In the Loop when Peter Capaldi’s force-of-[f**king]-nature spin doctor Malcolm Tucker is accosted by an American in tourist in DC as he hot-legs it across the Capitol on his mobile to a ‘secret’… Read more »