If politicians want to solve the U.K.'s endemic worklessness they must talk to people in supermarket cafés, for in those humble haunts of the lowly leisured all will be revealed, says Joanna Gray.
Furlough didn’t save millions of jobs – its true costs are only now becoming clear, says Fraser Nelson. "The £70bn scheme led to a welfare crisis, not a jobs recovery."
An all-pervasive 'just be kind' mindset in every walk of life is turning the economy to mush, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes. And it's being driven by out-of-control HR.
How much bigger does the welfare crisis need to become before it is a political talking point, asks Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
