Social Justice
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