News & Insight

12 March 2014

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...

11 March 2014

Conservatives claim “helping all Britain’s hard working businesses” is their essential rationale. In contrast, Labour is then portrayed as by definition anti-business. But, heavily favouring the City, ‘big business’ and international capital, Conservative policies have in reality been unsupportive, even detrimental...

10 March 2014

The restraint shown by the Low Pay Commission recently in recommending a three per cent rise in the national minimum wage is justifiable. The LPC has responsibility over a very successful instrument for attacking serious deprivation in the UK: it has almost...

10 March 2014

Can Labour change Britain? The answer is yes. No other political party, no other political movement has done more to shape the modern UK. Labour shaped the last century for the better through its bold and ambitious post-war effort and...

8 March 2014

Britain has been living through an unprecedented period of austerity - but its impact has been particularly felt by women. As numerous studies have found, women have been hit hardest by closures of services such as children's centres and libraries, because...

8 March 2014

Today is International Women's Day, and my thoughts turn to the great benefits 'social' Europe has brought to women in Britain. The European elections are looming ever closer, and David Cameron says he wants to renegotiate the deal with Brussels. We...