Justice for Jane Clough
Vera Baird writes about the small concession wrung from a government which is uniformly poor on women’s issues.
Social Justice
How poor children will get poorer on Cameron’s watch
Sam Royston of The Children’s Society explains how the coalition is on course to reverse all progress on reducing child poverty since 2000.
May is wrong: We can have a liberal immigration policy
IPPR Associate Director Matt Cavanagh writes about the potential for a new liberal immigration policy, based on both progressive values and evidence.
On welfare reform, IDS is ignoring the ERAD project; Miliband must not join him
A little-known program, the Employment Retention and Advancement Demonstration Project, could be the basis of a new phase of welfare reform, argues Stephen Evans.
Tory MP: People opposed to legal aid cuts are “irresponsible and unhelpful”
Tory MP Ben Gummer attacked campaigners against the government’s legal aid cuts at the Law Society fringe at the Conservative party conference last night.
‘Back of a fag packet’ housing policy continues
Kevin Gulliver is the director of Birmingham-based research charity The Human City Institute and chair of the Centre for Community Research but writes in a personal capacity; his interests are social and economic policy, especially relating to housing, health, communities and inequalities.test
Tories whitewash the millions set to lose from welfare reform
Sue Marsh presents her first thoughts on Chris Grayling and Iain Duncan Smith’s speeches on welfare reform at the Conservative party conference today.
Could earnings-based rent-control replace quantitative easing?
Peter Morgan argues that earnings-based rent-control would be better at increasing demand than quantitative easing, and will do so for less money as well.
Bill Nighy wants me in his latest movie. And he asked me to ask you, too
Bill Nighy is calling for people to film themselves to campaign for a financial transaction tax.
Universal children’s services must be part of the state’s duty to families
Labour needs to remake the case for a universalist approach to childcare, writes new Fabian Society General Secretary Andrew Harrop.