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.
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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.
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.
Have we passed the high watermark of state support for children?
Donald Hirsch, director of the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), writes about the CPAG/JRF report, “The Cost of a Child in the 21st Century”.
Reshuffle: Transport and communities: Where next for the ‘greenest government ever’?
Richard Hebditch of the Campaign for Better Transport reflects on the reshuffle changes at the departments for communities and transport.
Nomination for most influential left-wing thinker 2011/12: Philip Gould
Robert Philpot nominates Philip Gould as the most influential left-winger thinker 2011/12.
Nomination for most influential left-wing thinker 2011/12: Colin Crouch
Neal Lawson, chair of Compass, nominates Colin Crouch as the most influential left-winger thinker 2011/12.