Look Left – Wonga’s student ‘scam’ comes unstuck
Wonga: Their annoying adverts are everywhere, they continue to prey on the vulnerable, yet this week, we got them to take down a page targeting students.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Employment minister Chris Grayling does not appear to understand his own disability reforms
Employment minister Chris Grayling says goverenment is not going to means test benefits for those never able to work – but that’s exactly waht they intend to do.
How can we have fairer capitalism?
Sara Ibrahim presents a preview of the Young Fabians breakout session at the Fabian Society New Year Conference tomorrow.
Politics vs Economics: setting the scene for the Fabian’s Next Economy conference
Marcus Roberts looks at what happens when the ‘political reality’ prevents you from doing what is actually best
Cameron must speak out against Canada’s anti-gay marriage ruling
James Hallwood writes about Canada’s awful legal ruling, which retrospectively annulled thousands of marriages, and calls on Cameron to fight it.
Labour’s failings on disability – and the way forward
Ben Baumberg writes about where Labour can move on from the ‘benefit scrounger’ argument.
We need to save manufacturing, but manufacturing won’t save us
Westminster fashionable talk dictates that we need to rebalance the economy towards manufacturing. But manufacturing is declining as a proportion of the world economy.
“Demonising the government”: Sue Marsh v Chris Grayling (and Emily Maitlis)
Alex Hern presents the clash between disability campaigner Sue Marsh and employment minister Chris Grayling from last night’s Newsnight.
Ignore Wonga’s spin; they’re still targeting students
Alex Hern covers the continuing deceit of Wonga over their targeting of students for their payday loans
Express owner: ‘Mail is Britain’s worst enemy’
Alex Hern reports on Richard “Dirty” Desmond’s testimony at the Leveson enquiry.