Justice for Jane Clough
Vera Baird writes about the small concession wrung from a government which is uniformly poor on women’s issues.
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Osborne’s economic policy is to stick his head in the sand
Emily Thomas explains why the government’s continued reticence to ‘lend’ money is deeply worrying for the UK’s economic recovery.
Priti Patel’s attacks on trade unions are all about ideology
Carl Roper of the TUC defends the record of unions against the ideologically driven attacks of swivel-eyed right-wing Tory Priti Patel.
The coalition is actively increasing child poverty
The Resolution Foundation’s Felicity Dennistoun explains the IFS’s figures for child poverty, and puts them in the context of the wider welfare reforms.
How poor children will get poorer on Cameron’s watch
Sam Royston of The Children’s Society explains how the coalition is on course to reverse all progress on reducing child poverty since 2000.
Will Djanogly debunk the myth of a compensation culture?
J Mulligan presents the evidence against there being a compensation culture, and argues that attempts to fix this nonexistent problem will harm those worst off.
Exclusive: 98 of the FTSE 100 companies are addicted to tax havens
Ninety eight of the FTSE 100 companies are using tax havens, where you’ll find a whopping 38% of all of their overseas companies located, Left Foot Forward can reveal.
If Osborne gives up the lead on climate change, he can kiss goodbye to a recovery
IPPR’s Andrew Pendleton writes about how Osborne giving up the lead on fighting climate change means that he’ll be giving up the lead on the recovery.
Fox’s sliminess shows how much we need lobbying regulation
Tamasin Cave of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency argues that Liam Fox’s impropriety shows why we need to ensure lobbying becomes a well-regulated industry.
We need a new kind of tenure for a new kind of housing market
David Rodgers explains why the co-operative housing (tenure) bill is so sorely needed to fix the UK housing market.