EU Commission slaps down George Osborne over rebate claim
Chancellor George Osborne’s has been slapped down by his EU counterparts and by the Financial Times over his claim to have halved the UK’s £1.7bn EU budget surcharge.
Ed Miliband must talk about the thing he’s passionate about – rampant inequality
Talk about inequality again, Ed. Get angry about it. You’ll be surprised how many people are with you.
Shutting down abortion debates and banning the SWP – what a terrible week for free speech
People ought to be able to have a debate on any issue they damn well please
The anti-immigration voices have lost the economic argument
The economics of immigration are unambiguous: the anti-immigration voices have lost the argument and should move on.
We celebrate our ‘British Schindler’ Sir Nicholas Winton, but we’ve forgotten what he stood for
The word ‘foreigner’ has become so toxic that Britain is now prepared to let refugees drown.
The myth of migrants ‘flocking’ to Britain’s ‘soft touch’ benefits system
The desire to ‘get on’ isn’t confined to affluent Westerners.
MigrationWatch: a short history of spin, shoddy statistics and downright dishonesty
MigrationWatch don’t ‘talk truth to power’. They tell it exactly what it wants to hear: that it’s all the fault of the immigrants.
Five reasons we need a stronger recall bill
The ‘power of recall’ doesn’t really give constituents the right to recall their MP.
It isn’t just child poverty that limits social mobility; inequality does too
The side of social mobility that no politician will talk about: making rich-but-dim children downwardly mobile.
Until recently the Tories said Jose Manuel Barroso’s views were ‘definitive’
When the European Commission president agrees with David Cameron his views are ‘definitive’.