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Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze

Combative, provocative and engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze

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Moral Maze: 02/06/2010

02/06/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, 02/06/2010

Michael Buerk chairs. With Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik, Claire Fox and Melanie Phillips.

Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news. With Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik, Claire Fox and Melanie Phillips.

The new government hasn't spared much time sharpening it's axe and announcing cuts. It's clear that the 87 billion pounds a year annual bill for welfare benefits is going to be high on the list of priorities. If we can't afford it, what should we do about it? When money is tight how do you decide who is poor enough to help? Are news paper headlines and articles using phrases such as "welfare dependency," "the British disease" and "feckless poor" a dangerous echo of the old Victorian concepts of deserving and undeserving poor? How do you protect the truly needy while penalising those who want to claim benefit with no intention of ever trying to support themselves or their families? What should be our rights and our responsibilities in the welfare state?
Combative, provocative and engaging live debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik, Claire Fox and Melanie Philips.

Tonight's Witnesses:

Alexis Slater 

Julia Unwin
Chief Executive, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Daniel Johnson 
Editor of Standpoint

Matthew Sinclair 
Research Director at the Tax Payers Alliance.

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