Economic gloom is killing Britons’ sense of common interest
Anne Summers reports on the results of the 28th British Social Attitudes Survey.
Good Society
Anger with police sparked the riots
Ben Mitchell writes about how the role of the police in sparking, and then failing to deal with, the England riots is becoming clearer.
Barber: Why are lollipop ladies paying to cancel the bankers’ bonus tax?
The government is salpping a tax on public sector workers to clwar up the bankers mess. If ministers negotiate in good faith, a deal can still be done says Brendan Barber
Why the Conservatives are wrong about rights
Ram Mashru runs over the misrepresentation of the European Court of Human Rights by the Conservative Party.
The case for spending to save has been made and won, so do it already
Community Links’s Joe Randall explains the case for preventative spending, and argues that it is time the government actually acts on their rhetoric.
Unless pay gaps are reduced, we’ll end up with Victorian levels of inequality
Unless the trend towards greater inequality is halted, we may end up back at the levels of disparity “evident in Victorian England”, the High Pay Commission says.
Greening orders no opt-out for clothes-penetrating scanners
Alex Hern covers the DfT’s statement ending the option for a opt-out from new scanners which reveal the naked body of the person being scanned
More evidence Gideon’s savage attack on public sector pensions will hit women hardest
Government assurances that changes to public sector pensions will protect low-paid public sector workers earning less than £15,000 a year are wrong.
The current approach to drugs has gone to pot
Mike Morgan-Giles argues that British drugs policy is a serious failure of evidence-based policymaking, and that we can learn many lessons from overseas.
Lib Dems: We *are* delivering on our End Child Detention pledge
Tom Brake MP, chair of the Lib Dem Parliamentary Policy Committee on Home Affairs, explains the progress made by the coalition govt. in ending child detention.