What you need to know about Osborne’s working age benefit freeze
Your cut out and keep guide to today’sannouncement on freezing working age benefits.
George Osborne and a compendium of failure
Despite economic growth returning, the chancellor’s record is less rosy than he makes out.
Syria air strikes: Bashar al-Assad is not the ‘lesser evil’, but a major part of the problem
A Western alliance with Assad would be based on two colossal misunderstandings of the situation in Syria.
Ed Miliband’s six point plan for Britain – and what it means
In his speech today Miliband will set out his ‘six national goals’ for the country to achieve in the next 10 years.
Labour conference: The child benefit cap is a blow to struggling families
Labour’s record on child poverty is an admirable one. So it’s even more of a shame that Ed Balls has allowed the axe to fall on child benefit.
Labour conference 2014: why Britain needs a higher minimum wage
Ensuring a minimum wage of £8 an hour will mean the low paid seeing some of the benefits of the economic recovery.
IFS: Tories will need to put up taxes or make bigger spending cuts after election
The bombshell will come as a boost to Labour ahead of conference season.
Scotland referendum: Don’t let’s go back to business as usual
If we carry on letting populists kick at an open door, one day we will wake up and it won’t be Alex Salmond or Nigel Farage gesticulating on our television screens, but something far worse.
From an English socialist to a Scottish one: five reasons to stay
This is why I think you should stay. Fraternally yours, an English socialist.
Coalition misses universal credit target (again)
Just a fraction of the people the government wants to move to Universal Credit have been moved across to the new payment system, according to new statistics from the Department for Work & Pensions.