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Six months until the election: we look at the polls
How accurate have voting intention polls been in past elections?
The success of the living wage campaign benefits us all
Giving more people the living wage will have wider benefits for the economy.
Ed Miliband must talk about the thing he’s passionate about – rampant inequality
Talk about inequality again, Ed. Get angry about it. You’ll be surprised how many people are with you.
Labour’s problems are chronic – is Miliband the answer?
For all Ed’s warm words he has failed to articulate a vision for the country.
The psychological cost of inequality
Inequality is at a record high in Britain, and it’s costing us our happiness.
Shutting down abortion debates and banning the SWP – what a terrible week for free speech
People ought to be able to have a debate on any issue they damn well please
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.
Can Labour win over Cambridge?
Deriding Ed Miliband as an Oxbridge elitist is to miss the actual problem with Labour’s leadership.
Benefit fraud accounts for just 0.7 per cent of welfare spending, new figures show
Benefit fraud accounted for just 0.7 per cent of welfare spending in 2013/2014, according to new government figures published today.
It’s not just the anti-immigration voices that have lost the argument. It’s the left too
The left must move on from the economics of immigration and find a more progressive way to talk about the benefits of migration.