Karen Buck: The housing crisis is having a profound affect on London
Buck is working on Sadiq Khan’s blueprint for London’s rental sector.
Yearly Archives: 2019
37 jobs this Tory think tank considers unskilled
The think tank reckons if you earn under £37k, you’re unskilled.
Five problems with Caroline Lucas’s ‘cabinet of women’ idea
Lucas’s proposal drew criticism from across the political spectrum.
Tory think tank says those earning less than £37k are not skilled
So three-quarters of UK taxpayers are unskilled then.
Increase spending to boost worker productivity, says report
Reversing austerity and raising the minimum wage are two ways to fix the producivity crisis, the report said.
Constitution in chaos: It’s time for the left to stand up for democracy
If ever there was a time to think about what a political system ‘for the many’ would actually look like, it is now.
World’s most important climate change conference set to come to Scotland
COP26 looks set to shine a spotlight on both the Tories’ and the Scottish Government’s environment records.
There’s more to the John McDonnell Scottish independence story than people are letting on
The howls of outrage in Scottish Labour don’t seem to be as unanimous as previously thought.
EXCLUSIVE: Radical union expands to Northern Ireland in fight for foster carers
Following some major successes, the Independent Workers of Great Britain’s Foster Care Workers Branch is setting up a base in Northern Ireland.
How public space orders and the Vagrancy Act hurt the homeless
“Trying to punish and fine people out of poverty is counterproductive and displays a complete failure to engage with the complex social problems at the heart of this issue.”