The horror of Joy Worrall jumping to her death after her pension was wrongly stopped shames officialdom.
The 81-year-old might still be alive if it hadn’t been for the bureaucratic foul-up.
It would be unfair to hound civil servants who, for whatever reason, didn’t get this right but serious questions need to be asked about the callous culture created by nine years of corrosive Tory austerity.
Shedding thousands of jobs in the Department for Work and Pensions imposes huge strains on remaining employees.
Many will also wonder if hard-hearted Conservatives who portray recipients of state benefits as dubious for propaganda purposes aren’t creating personal disasters.
Welfare Secretary Amber Rudd limiting benefit sanctions to six months is a tacit admission of past guilt.
But that’s not enough. We want guarantees that people will receive what they’re entitled to receive.
Ban the bigots
Violent extremists from the far right pose a terrible threat to our democracy so let’s stop tolerating the intolerant.
It’s time to give the police the resources and powers to protect our freedoms.
Fascistic zealots wrapping themselves in the flag are homegrown echoes of the enemies we fought in the past to preserve our way of life.
Vigorous debate is to be welcomed and different political views must be heard. But where nationalist hate preachers spew venom and jeopardise safety, the law must step in.
Jeremy Corbyn deserves to be heard when he calls for bigoted boot boys to be stopped.
Our Euro stars
To have Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur in the final of Europe’s premier club competition was a huge national win.
Let’s come up with a way of ensuring the maximum TV audience for the Madrid
showdown so we can replay the passion and pride of last year’s England World Cup run.
