As the parliament has worn on the language of ‘rebalancing’ has faded from the Chancellor’s speeches. The reasons are easy to see. Rapid improvements in GDP last year have focused minds on who is benefiting from growth, not just how...
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The global financial crisis of 2008 did not just reveal the structural defects in our economy. It also laid bare the total inadequacy of how government measured success.
Even as bankers at some of the world’s leading financial institutions were clearing...
The Post Office is one of the best-loved institutions in the country, and that isn’t just because of the formal services the network provides.
A House of Commons Business Select Committee report (2009) on the future of the Post Office stated...
Ed Miliband has been blazing a trail for living wages, calling out the private sector on the poverty pay which keeps people reliant on state support. There are many major companies which this applies to, but one in particular deserves...
One of the most urgent tasks facing a progressive government is reform of the current system of taxation. The reasons for reform are clear: the present system is inequitable, socially regressive and becoming more so; it is inefficient, due to...
The very ideas of ‘guild socialism’ and ‘distributism’ have been far and few between since the early 20th century, yet the case for equality and common ownership is stronger than ever. We have always been presented with a false choice...