IDS gets that responsibility runs from bottom to top – why doesn’t the schools minister
Alex Hern asks whether Nick Gibb’s focus on “got to have it now” culture wrongly focuses on celebrity over city greed.
Social Justice
The right’s attack on child poverty targets shows their ignorance
Tim Nichols argues that Ruth Porter’s attack on child poverty targets misses the big picture in favour of a trojan horse attack on the European Union.
Cameron is pricing the young out of education and consigning them to the dole queue
Today’s unemployment figures make for depressing reading, especially for young people, writes Sally Hunt.
Here’s what the Portas review left out
Elizabeth Cox of nef argues that Mary Portas’ review of the High Street makes many good suggestions, but misses out some curiously large targets
Richard Murphy’s new book is itself courageous, and ambitious as well
Carl Packman reviews Richard Murphy’s new book, “The Courageous State”, and finds it to be an ambitious defence of the role of the State in the world today.
For our economic health we need a one-off tax on the one per cent
Stewart Lansley argues that the crisis we are suffering is one of demand and inequality, and that we can solve both with a one-off redistribution of wealth.
How can we fight child poverty without hitting people’s pockets?
Matthew Butcher argues, with Duncan Exley, that the Living Wage is the only way to reconcile the seemingly conflicting desires to end child poverty but also to decrease taxation.
To end inequality without redistribution of wealth, we should pay a living wage
Duncan Exley argues the lessons we should draw from the British Social Attitudes Survey are to push for a living wage and retain the 50p top rate of tax.
Hacker’s unfair extradition may yet be prevented
Alex Hern covers the latest debate around the use of the lopsided UK-US extradition treaty.
Tories are balancing the books on the backs of the world’s poorest
David Taylor writes about the cut to international development that was included in the autumn statement