, < Regeneration, < New Start editorial index page There’s a neat little equation that pundits and politicians are apt to quote. It goes a bit like this. There are around 2.7m people in the UK claiming incapacity benefit, at a cost to the exchequer of around £12.5bn a year. That’s nearly four times as many people as 35 years ago. So we could get, say, half of them back to work and save billions. Julian Dobson, editor * New Start Online Online magazine