March 2011
Pickles’s prescription is a recipe for exploitation
Dave Prentis, general secretary of UNISON, Britain’s biggest public sector trade union, on communities secretary Eric Pickles's latest bonkers plans.
Cameron doesn’t get it on disability reform’s mobility payments
The prime minister and the leader of the opposition have debated whether a cut to a vital support for some of the most vulnerable in our society was indeed, a cut. Ed Miliband asked whether the coalition would consider reversing the decision to axe the Disability Living Allowance Mobility Payments for 83,000 claimants of the benefit living in care homes - as detailed in Part 4, clause 83 of the welfare reform bill.
Libya: Early jitters grow around intervention
International intervention in Libya has suffered an early setback with the public, politicians and analysts displaying serious misgivings regarding the scope, timescale and goals of the military campaign, writes Seph Brown.
Budget 2011: Distributional analysis of coalition’s major tax changes
In the wake of yesterday's Budget, Tim Horton and Howard Reed present an updated distributional analysis of the effects of the coalition’s major direct and indirect tax changes.
Budget 2011: Planning changes: A hidden job killer?
Ed Turner, lecturer in politics at the Aston Centre for Europe, and deputy leader of Oxford City Council, looks at the impact of the changes to planning announced in yesterday's budget.
Budget 2011: Reaction across the nations
Left Foot Forward's Devolution Correspondent Ed Jacobs assesses reaction to the budget in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.