Green Politics
Payday lenders: tougher rules and price caps are welcome. But more is needed
The FCA had an opportunity to fix a broken market. It didn't take it.
Austerity and the misspent QE trillions
Austerity has enriched multinational companies and the owners of financial and real assets, while grinding down the value of earned income, pensions and benefits.
EU Commission slaps down George Osborne over rebate claim
Chancellor George Osborne's has been slapped down by his EU counterparts and by the Financial Times over his claim to have halved the UK's £1.7bn EU budget surcharge.
The success of the living wage campaign benefits us all
Giving more people the living wage will have wider benefits for the economy.
The psychological cost of inequality
Inequality is at a record high in Britain, and it's costing us our happiness.
Moral outrage about the Living Wage isn’t enough: it must be backed by legal muscle
The fact that we are even talking about the Living Wage is a sign of past failures.