News & Insight

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...

16 July 2013

There is a debate beginning in the international community about what will replace the millennium development goals (MDGs) in 2015. Central to this debate is how to integrate sustainable development within the poverty reduction agenda embodied in the MDGs. It...

15 July 2013

Transport emissions are responsible for more than a fifth of the UK’s contribution to climate change. Ministers have failed to deliver the step change needed to tackle this environmental crisis, despite the coalition agreement pledge “to make the transport sector greener...

12 July 2013

George Osborne has rejected outright the possibility of further tax rises as part of the government’s fiscal consolidation programme. Analysing the forecasts for government borrowing the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) recently said that in order to relieve pressure on...