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Why it matters: Regulating private rents
17 September 2013
The word ‘home’ means more than just a roof over your head; it means security, a place of safety, a sense of belonging. But for a large percentage of people now living in insecure private rented accommodation their home provides...
Continue ReadingWhy it matters: Solving Cameron’s childcare crisis
16 September 2013
The rising cost of living is a key threat to the livelihoods and prospects of many families. Higher prices and a stagnant economy mean that Britain’s parents are now facing a childcare crisis of this government’s making. Prices have shot up...
Continue ReadingUniversal credit: Failure or innovation?
13 September 2013
Much controversy has surrounded universal credit, the flagship welfare reform of the Coalition government that comes into operation nationwide this October. The brainchild of Iain Duncan Smith, universal credit is designed to replace most existing welfare payments with a single...
Continue Reading Economy / WelfarePostcard from Pyongyang
13 September 2013
This year marked the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War of 1950-1953, but no peace treaty has ever been signed and the peninsula remains technically at war. Perhaps mindful of the impact of glasnost in the...
Continue ReadingFighting for Breath
6 September 2013
This week has been perhaps the last sunny one of the summer. But if you notice a haze in the air, that’s because we are experiencing yet another smog episode in London. In the past few days alone, figures have shown...
Continue ReadingA super-size mistake
4 September 2013
As the Ministry of Justice announces that a ‘super-prison’ will be built in North Wales to house up to 2,000 inmates by 2017, it seems that Chris Grayling will be keeping any hopes of meaningfully rehabilitating offenders safely behind bars...
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