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Carl Packman

Website Carl is a health researcher; he writes book reviews for Left Foot Forward. Carl has written for the Guardian, New Statesman, Tribune Magazine, and The Philosopher's Magazine and blogs regularly at Though Cowards Flinch and Liberal Conspiracy. He is currently writing a book on consumer debt.

For wage growth in 2016 we need to raise productivity. How do we do that?

Carl Packman
15 December, 2015

Today the Resolution Foundation has published figures from their Earnings Outlook saying that unless workforce productivity rises in the UK next year, Britain’s pay recovery will barely last.

Five reasons why the French National Front are still a threat

Carl Packman
14 December, 2015

Despite their early rise in regional polls, the French National Front (FN) have been roundly routed in the elections, causing huge embarrassment for leader Marine le Pen as she sought to ramp up panic towards the French Muslim population. Aftertest

Lord Ken of Cricklewood? Say it ain’t so

Carl Packman
14 December, 2015

Ken for a peerage and/or shadow cabinet role? He’s not always been the best judge of public mood.

An increase in household spending is being fuelled by debt

Carl Packman
9 December, 2015

The Bank of England has expressed concern about the level of borrowing people have taken on in recent months

Osborne’s recovery is built on a growing mountain of debt

Carl Packman
13 October, 2015

The average UK household is set to owe close to £10,000 in unsecured debt by the end of 2016

Another warning for firms that profit from financial exploitation

Carl Packman
27 July, 2015

We shouldn’t let smaller payday lenders slip under the radar

How it really feels to be in debt

Carl Packman
17 July, 2015

60 per cent of people with a psychotic disorder live in a household with an income of less than £300 per week

Credit unions are not enough to help people cope with austerity

Carl Packman
29 June, 2015

The cost to society for problem debt is £8.3bn, and this government will only make things worse

Greek ‘compromise’ exposes European leaders’ contempt for democracy

Carl Packman
24 June, 2015

European institutions are fully aware that Greece cannot pay these debts.

Tailor-made financial services: the answer to the UK’s debt problem?

Carl Packman
8 June, 2015

We need a real alternative to predatory high street lenders

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