Education policy must acknowledge gender differences
This year’s GCSE results show the biggest difference between boys’ and girls’ performance since 2003.
Good Society
Genuine social mobility would mean the abolition of private schools
The country should draw upon 100 per cent of its population rather than relying upon just 7 per cent of it.
Getting into the thick of it: Michael Dugher’s speech on civil service reform
Emran Mian of the Social Market Foundation looks at the contents of Michael Dugher’s speech on reforming the civil service.
Better government needs people, not politicians, at the centre
Britons need better government, argues Steve Reed MP. And only the politics of empowerment can bring this about.
A living wage for fast food: BFAWU leaders speak out
Inspired by mass organisation in the US, UK fast food workers are beginning to mobilise for a better pay deal
Struggling with payday loans is still on the rise
People struggling on payday loans has risen by 42 per cent in the last year – the industry still needs to be reformed
Labour’s alternative to the Tories’ assault on workers’ rights
There is an obvious link between Tory disdain at the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act – and it closely involved workers’ rights
Zero hour contracts need to be addressed in the new Care Act
Hundreds of thousands of workers across the British economy are being offered absolutely no protection, and no guaranteed hours, but concern is absent in the new Care Act
Did we ever really abolish the slave trade?
This week the international society remembers the slave trade and its abolition. However, with an estimated 20-30 million victims subject to modern-slavery, this crime is still all too present in our societies.
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