Calling time on cheap booze
Special report on how a minimum price for alcohol could save the country billions of pounds and millions of lives.
Good Society
Expenditure cuts “will reduce income, savings and investment”
Much of the speculation around this week’s Pre-Budget Report assumes that priority must be given to reducing public sector deficits over the coming period.
Cameron’s policies look after big business chums at expense of workers’ rights
David Cameron looks to put the interests of his big business friends at the expense of workers’ health and safety.
Cameron’s policy-lite approach to health and safety
David Cameron played to the gallery today with a speech on health and safety. It was light on detail and perpetuated existing myths.
Cameron’s marriage policy ignores social trends
Today’s Daily Mail details a row over the role of marriage. But David Cameron’s tax break for couples ignores decades-long social trends.
Mr Blond’s words of fiction should be pulped
David Cameron’s newly-crowned ‘Philosopher-King’ Phillip Blond is ignorant of history, or economics and of his co-operatives – and he’s a lot like Mrs Thatcher.
Lucky richest 13 times better off than poorest under Tory marriage tax plan
The Tories married couples tax break will be regressive. It will cost £4.9 billion with the richest decile getting a tax break 13 times as big as the poorest.
Major reforms to policing proposed as report says performance “has not improved”
Greater local accountability and the creation of a National Policing Agency are among major reforms to the police service proposed by the Institute for Public Policy Research in a report out today. The priority areas for reform, the ippr says,test
Binmen clean up
The Leeds bin strike is over, after management and unions agreed a deal which will see most workers receive pay rises linked to productivity targets being hit.
The BCC’s misguided call for a freeze on labour law
The BCC are seeking a 3-year moratorium on labour legislation. This fails to take account of the UK’s obligations under EU law.