Boris Johnson’s use of statistics are designed to mislead the public
Len Duvall, leader of the Labour group on the London Assembly, explains how London Mayor Boris Johnson’s use of statistics is designed to mislead the public.
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Fact Check fact checked: London’s fares CAN be cut
Tom Copley fact checks Channel Four’s Fact Check, and finds that they are buying TfL’s spin hook, line and sinker.
Despite the rulings of regressive judges, UK is moving forwards on women’s safety
Vera Baird argues that despite the rulings of some regressive judges that infidelity can count as provocation, we’re still moving forward when it comes to ensuring women’s safety
The real squeezed middle could stagnate for 20 years
Joe Coward writes about the real ‘squeezed middle’, and details how it could take until 2020 for their income to reach the level it was in 2001.
Salmond has questions to answer, because the evidence doesn’t support him
William Bain lays out the evidence against a financially viable independent Scotland
Where is Labour on welfare?
Vincenzo Rampulla asks what the real Beveridge heritage is, and whether shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne is going the right way to achieving it.
Why child benefit must be removed from the benefit cap
Sam Royston explains why child benefit must be removed from the government’s proposed benefits cap.
The government’s ‘transparency’ is clear as mud
Tamasin Cave argues the American lobbying regulations should show the Tories how to do transparency, and that the watered down British version doesn’t work.
What’s right for Aberdeen isn’t for York; unemployment needs city-specific solutions
Paul Swinney of Centre for Cities presents the evidence to demonstrate why potential solutions to the unemployment problem must be focused at a city-wide level.
The new politics of protest
Matthew Sowemimo argues that Labour needs movements like Occupy and UKUncut to help galvanise disenfranchised populations.