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Home is where the heart is

Ruth Davis traces how the green movement and the wider left became estranged from people’s everyday lives – and how we might come together again around an English politics of nature...

Learning to change

When the Labour Representation Committee was formed by the Fabians, the trade unions and others in 1900, it set out to use democratic politics to tackle the inequalities thrown up by the industrial age. Exploitation and social decay were exploding...

Global tax avoidance: has the fight only just begun?

Tax avoidance is higher on the global political agenda than it ever has been before, largely as a result of civil society’s hard work. However, we have a long way to go to include developing countries, increase transparency and tackle...

Higher pay is an opportunity, not a cost

According to a major group of employers, the introduction of the 'national living wage' on Friday created a ‘burning platform’ for businesses. Invoking the language of the organisational change guru Darryl Conner, the claim implies businesses are facing a choice...

Child poverty: what now?

So the House of Lords did the job that the Commons could not. Without our undemocratic, unelected friends in ermine, the Conservatives would have succeeded in their stated aim to rip up the statutory commitment to end child poverty within...

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