The New Home Front explained, by Caroline Lucas MP
Caroline Lucas describes the work that the members of the New Home Front have been working on and solutions to the current political and social problems.
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Who is going to pay for new fire engines?
Written by Jenny Jones, Member of the London Assembly The Chair of the Fire Authority, James Cleverly, seemed remarkably confident and bullish about the success of privatisation when I questioned him on Wednesday. I found this surprising as the £1.5mtest
The informal economy – a hotbed of entrepreneurialism?
Benedict Dellot of the RSA examines the informal economy and what potential may be found within it to stimulate the nation’s economy.
When will we fix the housing market?
Professor Mark Stephens, adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Housing Market Taskforce, asks why have we not fixed the housing market?
Will not supporting gay marriage get you sacked?
Joe O’Donnell is a writer at Incomes Data Services (IDS) and is writing this in a personal capacity. The Telegraph recently published an article entitled ‘Teachers “face sack” for refusing to endorse gay marriage’. This hyperbolic report uses Aidan O’Neilltest
Time to act to safeguard the Olympic legacy
What can London 2012 learn from past games in maintaining a healthy, successfully and economically sound legacy?
Transport poverty is real, pervasive and must be tackled
Liz Thorne, policy adviser at Sustrans, examines whether a family car is a necessity or is transport poverty the real issue.
Where can investment come from?
Stephen Beer investigates why investment is not reaching the UK economy and what Labour can do to induce investment among our nation’s businesses.
100,000 families will lose out in coalition’s childcare shake-up
The planned shake up of child benefit system will affect families and their incomes, new research by The Children’s society shows. Is it time for a re-think?
Extreme weather, extreme prices: Time for governments to ‘stress-test’ global food system
Tracy Carty, Climate Change Policy Advisor at Oxfam, writes about Oxfam’s “Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices: The costs of feeding a warming world” report.