The PM described the government’s ‘work programme’ as “the biggest back to work scheme since the 1930s”; this is a very strange parallel for them to draw in support of his policies.
Public policy should encourage a new sense of vibrancy into our high streets, reclaiming this public space for our community benefit, writes Elizabeth Cox.
The Daily Mail, propagating misinformation about immigrants to sell Iain Duncan Smith’s Welfare Bill, is cynical indeed, writes Ruth Grove-White of the Migrants’ Rights Network.
It is crucial that women be given a strong voice at the highest levels of international development policy making, writes Anas Sarwar, Labour MP for Glasgow Central.
Amid the controversy of charities and cuts, a neglected part of this week’s ‘Big Society’ re-launch is the reappearance of the idea of the ‘broken society’, writes Matt Cavanagh.
While the government has confirmed that religious elements will be allowed in civil partnerships, suggestions they will go further – such as by allowing the word “marriage” – are rumour and speculation.
Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the London Assembly, asks: Should we give equal priority to income inequality and tackle the pay of people at the top, in the belief that reducing the income gap will lead to economic, social and environmental justice? And can we find we right policies to achieve this?
Today’s Health Service Ombudsman report makes harrowing reading, highlighting ten case studies of appalling levels of care of older people in our hospitals.
After the failure of Project Merlin to introduce any real and significant reform of the banking sector, the call for the government to break up the banks is growing louder.
The influential Commons Public Accounts Committee published a report today on the youth justice system in England and Wales, writes shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter.
