In defence of the four day working week
At the moment the four-day week is a mere pipe dream: but it should be secured as part of a wider package of progressive ideas
Steven Donlon
A reckless housing boom will not guide the Tories to victory in 2015
The Help to Buy scheme reinforces the economy’s unsustainable dependence on private debt and spiralling house prices.
‘Kony 2012’ and the forgotten conflict in the Central African Republic
Although Joseph Kony still poses a threat, the rebel leader is not the most urgent problem facing CAR right now.
Hospital parking charges should be abolished in England, too
Hospitals should be properly funded through general taxation, not propped up by a tax on the sick.
How to control welfare spending: build houses and raise the minimum wage
There are more progressive ways to control spending than bashing the poor.
Does Nick Clegg still want to decriminalise cannabis?
It is increasingly clear that the Westminster bubble cannot shield itself from the debate on drug reform much longer.
The chilling effect on democracy of the looming US-EU trade deal
A looming EU-US trade deal is profoundly undemocratic.
Now the ‘new politics’ is dead, what is the point of the Lib Dems?
Here are some of the key pledges of Nick Clegg’s ‘new politics’ agenda which the party has dropped.
Never mind the 50p top rate: these five cuts really are a false economy
Five self-defeating cuts which are not only unfair, but fail on the coalition’s own criteria of deficit-reduction.