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A Presumption of Equality

Politicians should adopt a ‘presumption of equality’ between age groups. Policies should not be designed on the assumption that age is a good proxy for low income; instead older people should only receive special treatment when there is a clear rationale and evidence.
By Andrew Harrop.
July 2013

Green prosperity

There have been concerns from some environmentalists that Labour doesn’t ‘get’ the importance of political leadership on climate change. Any such fears can now be banished after Ed Ball’s speech to the Green Alliance.

It was a speech about infrastructure that...

In defence of truth and belief

It is a troubling conclusion that the environmental movement has been unable to capitalise on overwhelming evidence in favour of dramatic co2 emissions reductions. In the same way that the financial crisis did not automatically improve the fortunes of the...

Green Labour

The environment and citizenship programme is one that tries to grapple with what I think can be summed up by two central questions:

Firstly, how can we keep the environment on the agenda at a time of economic insecurity and uncertainty?
And...

Labour’s luminaries

In the summer of 1888, there was uproar on the streets of the East End.

1,400 matchmakers, mostly women and young girls, had walked out of Bryant & May’s factory in Bow and were picketing its gates.

This horrified polite society. Victorian...

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