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Good Society

How Labour can embrace a new approach to tackling inequality

Penny Young
7 March, 2014

High rates of in-work poverty combined with falling support for state safety nets has resulted in a complex equality challenge for Labour. However, it can win public backing for a new approach to collectivism.

The Tory Party is no longer the party of business

James Bloodworth
7 March, 2014

Tory anti-immigration rhetoric is resulting in a backlash from business.

Food banks

The Trussell Trust supplies 600,000 emergency parcels in nine months

David Christie
5 March, 2014

New figures released by the Trussell Trust show that the food bank charity provided emergency parcels containing three days food more than 600,000 times between April and December last year.

Does Nick Clegg still want to decriminalise cannabis?

Steven Donlon
3 March, 2014

It is increasingly clear that the Westminster bubble cannot shield itself from the debate on drug reform much longer.

If you don’t want water cannon on our streets, now is the time to say so

Christine Berry
28 February, 2014

The Met wants to buy weaponry that can injure, blind and even kill.

The government’s child poverty strategy falls short of the mark

Claudia Wood
27 February, 2014

The government’s child poverty strategy is disappointingly short on new ideas.

Boris’ failure on affordable housing

Tom Copley
26 February, 2014

Boris’ incompetence is exacerbating the shortage of housing in London.

Tories make last-ditch attempt to prevent action on take up of smoking by children

James Bloodworth
26 February, 2014

Tory MEPs are set to make a last ditch attempt to stop Labour-led reforms designed to reduce the take up of smoking by children.

The crisis in crisis support – reversing the slow abolition of welfare assistance funding

Mark Harrison
25 February, 2014

The abolition of the Local Welfare Assistance fund makes scant social or economic sense.

Food banks

Tory MEPs ‘taking food from the mouths of children’

James Bloodworth
25 February, 2014

Britain’s food banks have been to be blocked from claiming millions in EU aid by Tory MEPs.

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