Immigration-fixated Daily Mail blind to looming demographic crisis
The Daily Mail is more worried about the numbers of foreign-born UK residents than the demographic timebomb facing citizens, taxpayers and young people.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Will human rights have their day in Bangladesh?
Claire Leigh asks if the ‘Untouchable’ Dalit communities in India and Bangladesh will finally be embraced by the rest of society.
Tuition fees backlash gains momentum on the right
UKIP’s Gawain Towler talks exclusively to Left Foot Forward about his party’s position on tuition fees.
Low-to-middle earners suffer 5.4 per cent drop in average salaries
The 2010 ‘Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings’ data released today by the ONS shows that the median annual salary earned by all workers fell by 0.4 per cent in nominal terms from £21,310 in 2009 to £21,221 in 2010. Once inflation is taken into account (RPI increased by 5.3 per cent between April 2009 and April 2010, which is the date the ASHE survey relates to), stagnation turns to significant contraction, with the median salary falling by a sizeable 5.4 per cent.
Cameron: Drones are the future, in Afghanistan and beyond
During a surprise visit to Afghanistan this week, the prime minister announced the UK will double its military unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capability by 2013.
The real nature of the EMA debate
Anthony Painter examines the truth behind the numbers in the Educational Maintenance Allowance debate.
Who’s misleading whom?
The tuition fee row will hit its peak tonight, after which students across England will have to face up to the fact they will pay fees amounting to £27,000.
London’s new anti-Tory generation says no to fee hikes
On the day MPs vote on government proposals to increase tuition fees, Ken Livingstone has warned the government about the disastrous consequences for London.
Five reasons to oppose the trebling of fees
MPs will vote tonight on the trebling of tuition fees to £9,000. Left Foot Forward sets out five reasons to oppose the move.
New campaign to up the ante on bank reform
If banks operated in public interest, there would be no need for a ‘Big Society Bank’, argues Ruth Potts of the new economics foundation.