Isolation in the elderly; facing up to the challenge
Vicki Purewal, Head of Nesta’s Centre for Challenge Prizes, writes about the challenge of combating isolation and loneliness amongst pensioners and the elderly.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Time for our leaders to face up to the facts: Austerity is killing jobs and the recovery
It’s time our leaders faced up to the facts: austerity is killing jobs and no amount of discussion on reforming employment policy will disguise that basic fact.
Clinton rides to the rescue, lighting up convention season and firing up the Dems
In the latest in our series of reports from the Democratic National Convention 2012, Sara Ibrahim reports from Charlotte on Bill Clinton’s barnstorming speech.
To fully stretch the brightest and best we need a more serious focus on interventions
To fully stretch the best pupils involves a much more serious focus on interventions within schools that target those children who are falling behind.
For Labour, tackling inequality needs to be at the heart of the political agenda
Professor Kate Pickett writes about the new pamphlet, “Why Inequality Matters”, from the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) and My Fair London.
The population scaremongerers are pedalling the same nonsense as 18th-century sceptics
Don Flynn, director of the Migrants’ Rights Network, rebuts the population myths being pedalled by anti-immigration MPs like Nicholas Soames and Frank Field.
Umunna: The case for an active government and modern industrial policy
Read the text of shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna’s speech todoay to Policy Network’s conference on growth and a new political economy.
Reshuffle: Housing: Shapps’s legacy, and the challenges facing Prisk
Kevin Gulliver looks at Grant Shapps’s legacy as housing minister and the challenges facing his successor Mark Prisk.
While the government are blaming everybody but themselves, Londoners are suffering
Londoners are suffering as the government blames everybody else for their economic mess, writes Labour’s City Hall Planning spokesperson Nicky Gavron.
Salmond shuffle paves the way for referendum campaign
Ed Jacobs reports on Alex Salmond’s reshuffling of the Scottish government.