A few days ago I heard a homeless woman say she’d ‘worked all her life’ but ended up on the streets. Perhaps she’s the tip of the iceberg. A growing number of working people are relying on food banks, working...
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More needs to be done to raise the living standards of Britain’s five million low-paid workers. Yet so far, rather than addressing the problem of low pay directly, policy responses – whether it is Labour’s pledge to reintroduce a 10p...
If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine’ Horace
This week the College of Emergency Medicine highlighted the challenges facing emergency departments across the country with unsustainable workloads and staffing shortages. Whilst the design, funding...
“When all this is gone, what's left is what matters most: the people you love - your family, your friends.” The Guardian's Mike White tells me these were Jim Callaghan’s words, quoted by a member of his family at the...
The ‘predistribution’ of income is the latest economic policy tool that Ed Miliband has found to try and own the future of how we create a more equal society. The guiding economic tool of the Labour party since its inception...
The state has an important role to play in building a good society and we should defend it. Of course it cannot be an uncritical defence; there's much that is wrong with how the state functions. Hence the notion of...