Peter Saunders personal website

June 2010:

Thursday 17 June:
Live video link to Centre for Independent Studies (Sydney) debating the Ken Henry review of Australian welfare benefits system. Details here

Wednesday 9 June:
New Zealand Welfare Working Group discusses welfare reform. Read my submission or watch my video presentation on Youtube

Thursday 3 June:
Interview on 'Sussex Breakfast' programme on BBC Radio Sussex about Social Mobility Myths

Tuesday 1 June:
Reports in Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail on Social Mobility Myths

Tuesday 1 June:
Social Mobility Myths published by Civitas. Order from Amazon

May 2010:

Thursday May 27:
Chair debate at Civitas on industrial policy between David Green of Civitas and John Willman of Policy Exchange. Visit Civitas here

Monday May 10:
Article on the economic implications of the UK general election result, published in The Australian newspaper. Read it here

Wednesday May 5:
In New Zealand, some politicians continue to attack what they call my 'extreme view' that 'low average intelligence and low class are linked'. Do they believe that ability plays no part in occupational recruitment? Read my response here

April 2010:

Thursday April 29:
In New Zealand Parliament, Labour attacks my involvement in the welfare reform group, claiming I argue that "low-income people are innately more stupid and more often end up on welfare." You can read the comment here. To see what I actually say about class and intelligence, read my new book, Social Mobility Myths

Thursday April 29:
Article on the UK election campaign published in The Australian newspaper. Read it here

Wednesday April 14:
I am writing one article per week for the Centre for Independent Studies e-newsletter in Sydney, discussing aspects of the UK general election campaign. You can read them here for the duration of the campaign.

Tuesday April 13:
New Zealand Social Development Minister, Paula Bennett, has announced that I have been appointed as an 'international expert' helping the new working group on welfare reform. More details here.

February 2010:

Tuesday February 23:
In the House of Lords debate on the Child Poverty Bill, Opposition spokesperson, David Freud, cites my Policy Exchange paper in support of his proposed amendment. Read the debate in Hansard

Thursday February 4:
Debate: Should the state support marriage through the tax/benefit system? Sponsored by Policy Exchange. Other speakers were Stephen Brien (Centre for Social Justice), Andrew Haldenby (Reform) and Richard Reeves (DEMOS). For more details, click here

Wednesday February 3:
Why there should be a married couple's tax allowance. Published on politics.co.uk, the UK's leading political news website. Click here to read

November 2009:

Friday November 27:
Are the Government's Proposed Measures the Right Ones? Paper on the government's Child Poverty Bill presented at the Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion conference in Birmingham, 'Tackling child poverty in hard times'. Click here to download Powerpoint slides from the presentation.

October 2009:

Thursday October 29:
Poverty of Ambition, a critique of the Government's Child Poverty Bill and its statutory poverty targets, published by Policy Exchange. Download a copy here.

Tuesday October 27:
New novel, The Versailles Memorandum goes on sale. Go to website .

Saturday October 10:
'Visions of Hastings' runner-up prize awarded at Hastings Town Hall for short story, Enough Edge. The story will be published next year by Earlyworks Press in a collection edited by Kay Green. More information