2012
The real squeezed middle could stagnate for 20 years
Joe Coward writes about the real 'squeezed middle', and details how it could take until 2020 for their income to reach the level it was in 2001.
Salmond has questions to answer, because the evidence doesn’t support him
William Bain lays out the evidence against a financially viable independent Scotland
Conservatives retain the lead nationally; Is this the new normal?
Alex Hern assesses what the latest flock of polls means for Labour, and what lessons can be drawn from them
Cable fails to provide a stick or carrot in the fight against obscene pay
Duncan Exley writes about Cable's failure to properly provide a stick or carrot to back up his words about tackling high executive pay
Outside In: A conviction politician, and a good read to boot
Carl Packman reviews Peter Hain’s book Outside In, and finds it to be a thoroughly good profile of a conviction politician.
Where is Labour on welfare?
Vincenzo Rampulla asks what the real Beveridge heritage is, and whether shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne is going the right way to achieving it.