The DWP’s £20-a-Week Miracle: How Britain’s Bleeding-Edge Benefits Became the World’s Dark Comedy Gold Standard
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may sound parochial—an acronym so British it practically queues for itself—but the fortnightly clank of its payments into 20 million UK accounts is the faint heartbeat of a much larger global organism: the modern welfare state on life support. From Lagos to Lisbon, Seoul to São Paulo, treasuries…