News & Insight

9 September 2015

In recent years the focus of fiscal policy in the UK, as in many industrialised countries in the wake of the financial crisis, has been on reducing the overall rate of public expenditure. However, despite a series of reforms to...

8 September 2015

In Ann Mumford’s chapter for the Fabian pamphlet Tax for our Times, she makes a strong case for interrogating the implicit gender bias of the tax system and discarding the idea that tax policy can be gender neutral. “Every aspect...

3 September 2015

The image of a young, lifeless, Syrian boy – now named as Aylan Kurdi – lying face down on the beach, his death the result of his family’s desperate attempt to reach Greece by boat, has thrown into sharp relief...

3 September 2015

A Resolution Foundation report on the impact of the new National Living Wage (NLW), published today, makes for interesting reading. It shows that three in ten women in work are set to receive a pay rise, and that women will account for 61%...

1 September 2015

The long, hot summer of hustings is drawing to a close, and we’ll soon know which of the prospective mayoral candidates Londoners will have to pick from come May. Housing, transport and inequality have dominated the debate – but what powers...

26 August 2015

It’s nearly ten years since I left the Liberal Democrat Party, and nine since I first voted Labour in an election. I’ve been a member for a comparatively modest five years – I was never eligible to be in Young...