Why are the coalition so ageist?
Aaron Porter highlights the difference between the coaltion’s treatment of under-30s and over-65s.
Good Society
Priti Patel’s attacks on trade unions are all about ideology
Carl Roper of the TUC defends the record of unions against the ideologically driven attacks of swivel-eyed right-wing Tory Priti Patel.
The coalition is actively increasing child poverty
The Resolution Foundation’s Felicity Dennistoun explains the IFS’s figures for child poverty, and puts them in the context of the wider welfare reforms.
Will Djanogly debunk the myth of a compensation culture?
J Mulligan presents the evidence against there being a compensation culture, and argues that attempts to fix this nonexistent problem will harm those worst off.
Exclusive: 98 of the FTSE 100 companies are addicted to tax havens
Ninety eight of the FTSE 100 companies are using tax havens, where you’ll find a whopping 38% of all of their overseas companies located, Left Foot Forward can reveal.
Coalition split on riots sentencing
Ed Jacobs discusses new data showing yet another split between the Tories and Lib Dems in government – this time over the proportionality of riot sentencing.
Steve Jobs: He did it his way
Steve Jobs, the co-founder and, until recently, CEO of Apple, died last night at home with his family. Jobs had lived with pancreatic cancer for four years, but had carried on working at the company he built from nothing –test
Boris’s policies are making London less safe
Andrew Dismore, Labour’s GLA candidate for Camden and Barnet, looks at London Mayor Boris Johnson’s failure to get to grops with crime in the capital.
The anti-human rights obsession of Theresa and the Tories
Xenophobia is deep in the Tory heart, fuelling their anti-human rights obsession, writes former Solicitor General Vera Baird QC.
Cameron will lose England another million low rent homes
Pete Challis details how the right to buy demolished England’s housing stock.