Some executives are paid up to 1,000 times as much as their employees
It would be instructive to have CEOs explain exactly why they are worth so much more
Green Politics
Comment: Austerity rests on a thesis the government doesn’t believe in
The disproportionate investment bias towards London suggests the government is unconcerned about ‘crowding out’
Gender pay gap: enough is enough
Short term cost is preventing companies from feeling the long term economic benefits of equal employment
School leavers can’t take any more cuts
GCSE students have worked hard to achieve their results – the government now needs to protect their opportunities
Greece is for sale – and everything must go
But these privatisations are not designed to help the Greek people
Why continued unemployment is in the government’s interest
Scapegoating benefit claimants allows the government to deflect attention from its own economic failures, and to make more ideologically motivated cuts
Government complacency on the jobs market masks a series of policy failures
The level of youth employment in the UK is comparable to the Eurozone
The jobs recovery is still too finely balanced to call
We should be cautious about seeing a labour market trend from a month or two of bad figures
A Northern Powerhouse means little unless it makes people better off
The northern economy should not just blindly replicate the London one, which has led to large inequalities
Fears for Northern Ireland’s economy as welfare row continues
Northern Ireland is set for years of ‘intensified austerity’