Obama puts manufacturing top of the agenda – time for Cameron to do the same?
Tony Burke looks at the state of the unions following the State of the Union address, where Obama called for America to reclaim the lead in manufacturing.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Government gold-plates private pensions while cutting public ones
Cormac Hollingsworth reveals the government’s two-faced attitude to pensions; gold-plate the private sector ones, while cutting those of the public sector.
Legal loan sharks are licking their lips as the social fund is scrapped
Pete Jefferys of the Co-op party explains why the scrapping of the social fund – is playing into the hands of the legal loan sharks like Wonga and Oakam.
Bill Gates: Innovation is the key to overcoming the need for aid
Mann Virdee reports from Bill Gates’s speech at the LSE this week.
Is Clegg’s tax threshold plan the best way to reduce income inequality?
Nick Clegg’s tax threshold plans go half way to addressing the problem of working poverty, but it goes no way towards addressing the cause.
European Socialists present their action plan on youth unemployment
Alex Hern highlights the European Socialists’ demands for a pan-European measure to deal with youth unemployment, which costs €16 billion to the UK each year.
Elected Mayors: Let the referendum campaigns begin
The government announced yesterday that residents from Bristol to Newcastle, along with nine other English cities, will go to the polls on May 3rd.
Liddle’s latest outrage shouldn’t surprise us
Alex Hern reminds everyone that Rod Liddle’s never been the nicest journalist on the block – and that his latest outrageous comments are just par for the course
Busting the means testing myth
Andrew Harrop presents the evidence against increasing means-testing – universalism is the key to ensuring a well-funded welfare state.
Progressives need a positive vision for Scotland
Following Alex Salmond’s outlining of the plans for the referendum on Scottish independence, Ed Jacobs stresses the need for a positive vision of the future.