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Where now for Labour?
13 June 2014
The recent election results were a mixed blessing for the Labour party. Despite coming first in terms of national vote share in the local elections and seeing the further collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote, the successes clearly did not...
Continue ReadingElection 2014: The numbers
12 June 2014
Labour seats where Labour lost the popular vote in the 2014 local elections Party names in brackets in the 2010 columns indicate the main competitor party in 2010 where this is different from 2014. There were 9 Labour seats where the party...
Continue ReadingStop taxing periods. Period
11 June 2014
What products and consumables do you consider essential to maintain a decent standard of living? I’m guessing that exotic meats such as horse, ostrich, crocodile and kangaroo wouldn’t make it into your top ten (or even cross your mind). In...
Continue ReadingElection 2014: the experts view
11 June 2014
How did Labour do in the local and European elections 2014? The answer is more complicated than you might think. While the party undoubtedly did well in its urban strongholds of London and Manchester, a more detailed analysis reveals deep...
Continue ReadingPride of Place
9 June 2014
People’s sense of identity, shaped by their attachment to their local area, can sit at the heart of a new politics of the environment. Pride of Place: Land, community and a popular environmentalism calls for a revolution in the culture of...
Continue ReadingThe cost of the pay gap
6 June 2014
Pay for those at the top of our society continues to rise inexorably while average incomes stagnate. The gap between the remuneration of the so-called “super-managers” who run our top businesses and everyone else, is getting ever wider. A chief executive...
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