How do we build a better future with Somalia?
Shadow international development minister Rushanara Ali examines how to improve the lives ot those in Somalia who need our help most.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Jobcentre Plus needs radical and urgent reform to bring down unemployment
With youth unemployment continuing to rise, and the number of neets at record levels, Jobcentre Plus needs urgent reform, writes Amanda Ramsay.
New record high for NEETs in 2011 – but why?
IPPR’s Richard Darlington looks at why there’s been such a rocket in the number of NEETs in 2011. Is it EMA? Is it the Future Jobs Fund? Is it just the Tories?
Rewards for failure continue at the top of industry
Alex Hern examines the common link between the appalling bad RBS quarter, and the appallingly good Centrica one: Rewards for failure.
There should be no prizes for exploiting children at the Olympics
Owen Tudor announces the launch of a campaign to clear up labour practices around the Olympics for good.
Metering can reduce water use, so why is the government not backing it?
Natan Doron examines how, and why, we should reduce water use in Britain, and asks what the government is doing about it.
Just as we dismantle our NHS, India is trying to build theirs
David Taylor argues that the lack of help for India’s growing health service is a shame, but sadly typical of the conservative attitude to aid
What works in encouraging saving?
Giselle Cory examines the state of ‘nudge’-based programs that encourage saving gently; they may help, but they can’t overcome poverty alone.
Subject choice plummets across the UK as the government fails universities
Sally Hunt shows the extent to which subject choice has shrunk in the UK as a result of government policy and rhetoric on HE.
“One of the finest foreign correspondents of her generation” – Marie Colvin, 1956-2012
Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed today in the Syrian city of Homs, alongside French photographer Rémi Ochlik. She was just 55 years old.