Headline unemployment fall is good news, but underlying picture remains grim
The ‘recovery’ in the labour market over the most recent quarter has been characterised by part-time work and slowing wage growth; this is not good news.
Yearly Archives: 2012
World must act now to prevent Sahel famine killing millions
If we are to prevent the entirely avoidable Sahel famine crisis from killing thousands of people and once again staining our planet we must act. Now.
Vote 2012: A tale of two Labour parties
As local election campaigns begin, the Scottish and Welsh Labour parties take radically different approaches to confronting the threat from nationalism.
Select committee calls on coalition to tackle Britain’s outsourced emissions
The UK government cannot ignore the huge issue of outsourced emissions any longer, writes Guy Shrubsole.
We need a firm limit on the time we are prepared to tolerate anyone being unemployed
Society should place a firm limit on the amount of time we are prepared to tolerate anyone being unemployed, writes IPPR’s Graeme Cooke.
Liverpool MP reiterates anger at comic’s “stupid and grossly offensive” Hillsborough comments
Liverpool MP Steve Rotheram expressed renewed anger today at Alan Davies’s semi-apology for his ill thought out remarks on Hillsborough, reports Shamik Das.
Calamity Grayling misuses the stats (again)
Gaffe-prone employment minister Chris Grayling added to his opus of incompetence today; Shamik Das chronicles all his balls ups down the years.
Tories mount a campaign against their own energy policy
Quite how David Cameron thinks this can be the greenest government ever if he isn’t serious about household energy use is anyone’s guess, writes Charlie Samuda.
Osborne, Barclays, the Cayman Islands and tax avoidance
Making it easier for British multinationals to shift the profits they make into tax havens makes no sense whatsoever, explains ActionAid’s Chris Jordan.
Economic update – April 2012: Coalition failures put Britain in the slow lane
IPPR chief economist Tony Dolphin presents his latest Left Foot Forward economic update, for April 2012.