News & Insight

22 July 2013

Howard Reed finds that the impact of the coalition’s tax and benefit measures could end being as bad for inequality as the Thatcher government’s record. Turning the tide needs to be at the heart of Labour’s strategy for government Concern about...

18 July 2013

A rebalanced economy is an issue on which, in their own way, each leader will campaign at the next election. The party which grasps the interconnectedness of this challenge and works with, rather than ignores, the long term but incremental...

18 July 2013

Is it called higher education because it is literally beyond the reach of some? The UK rightly prides itself on a world class higher education system, a system which attracts admiration, and overseas students, from around the world. A system built...

17 July 2013

The government cites the strength of employment as evidence of its success. Yet the rest of the economy has been perilously weak. So what’s going on? Is employment really doing well, providing the springboard for recovery and growth; or is...

16 July 2013

Who could disagree that a progressive development agenda provides an essential route to social justice? Certainly nobody participating in the Green Labour panel discussion on sustainable development and poverty reduction at the Fabian Summer Conference did, but there was a...

16 July 2013

Yesterday the justice select committee published its report women offenders: after the Corston Report. The report flags serious concerns that the government is not doing enough to address the needs of women in the justice system, resulting in a slow...