Tax credit changes will discourage work and have other disastrous effects
There are warnings today that 424,000 adults and 470,000 children are at risk of falling into poverty as a result of the government’s tax credit changes.
Yearly Archives: 2012
The Osborne tax get-out turns aid for the poorest into a subsidy for multinationals
Last year, the UK donated £4.2bn to poor countries. Now Osborne is considering changes that will allow multinationals to avoid paying £4bn to poor countries.
Time to talk about integration
We need to be courageous enough to adapt our own practices to individual needs; we need to talk about integration, writes Jill Rutter.
The Unionists are on to a winner – why not put it to the test?
It is time to put to the test the positive, progressive alternative to Alex Salmond’s independence bandwagon Scotland so desperately needs, writes Ed Jacobs.
All the signs are there for another credit crunch
the threads of forbearance and liquidity holding up the balance sheets of the private banking system are growing perilously thin, writes Ann Pettifor.
As opposition grows and grows, Lansley and Cameron carry on regardless
Jos Bell reports on the latest parliamentary developments on the health and social care bill, as the battle to save the NHS goes on.
What will happen to Rangers?
Stephen Henderson looks at where next for Glasgow Rangers FC.
Time for Ken Clarke to deliver peers the evidence on the real cost of legal aid cuts
On the legal aid cuts and LASPO bill, the real problem Ken Clarke has is his story savings figures simply do not stack up and peers from all sides know it.
New OECD data shows how far Britain lags behind in women’s boardroom representation
New data from the OECD reveals just how far the UK lags behind other leading nations when it comes to equal gender representation in the boardroom.
Boris’s 9-point plan is a bridge to nowhere
Andrew Dismore, Labour’s GLA candidate for Camden and Barnet, takes apart London Mayor Boris Johnson’s 9-point “Plan for London”.