Good Society
Spirit of ‘45? Yes, but it’s 2013
Recreating Old Labourism is not only the last thing Miliband has in mind, but would now be impossible, even if that were what he sought to achieve.
Bangladesh garment worker tragedy is ‘mass industrial slaughter’
Since 2005, more than 1,000 textile workers in Bangladesh have died in fires and building collapses. Thousands of people, many of them young women work in appalling and unsafe conditions in factories which supply western countries and High Street stores with cheap clothing.
It’s time to act on tobacco packs
It is over a year now since this coalition opened its consultation on tobacco packaging and we are still waiting for their answer. Come to that, it will soon be five years since Alan Johnson launched the Labour government’s consultation.
Reoffending is being fuelled by ex-prisoner homelessness
Britain is rapidly becoming much more peaceful. In case you haven’t already noticed, it is now official. This is great news; but for some these numbers will be small comfort. As usual, headline figures mask the experiences at the individual and neighbourhood level.
Westminster must follow Holyrood’s lead on train fares
Rail fares and ticketing are unnecessarily expensive and complicated - it's a mess that successive governments have ducked responsibility for sorting out. The Scottish government has now taken action, cutting fares and pledging to remove pricing anomalies. But will the same deal be extended to train users south of the border?
Want more people to cycle? Then crack down on speeding motorists
A report by MPs and peers which came out yesterday called for a quarter of all journeys to be made by bicycle by 2050, saying a "fundamental cultural shift" is now needed in how we think about travel.