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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Today

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Today

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Latest Posts

Advanced manufacturing must play a major role in growing and rebalancing the economy

Tony Burke
27 June, 2014

A review of manufacturing commissioned by Labour says the UK needs to avoid damaging economic short-termism.

Labour outlines progressive vision for the Union

Ed Jacobs
27 June, 2014

Scotland can be part of a progressive union, Miliband will say today.

Poor people in Britain – poorer than those in similar-sized economies

Luke Hildyard
27 June, 2014

Incomes in the West Midlands are significantly lower than in the poorest regions of Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

ISIS are more in thrall to Hitler and Stalin than to the Caliphate

Ghaffar Hussain
26 June, 2014

The contemporary agitation for a Caliphate is a struggle to establish a totalitarian state that bears little resemblance to Muslim empires of the past.

Inequality is on the rise. And it really is the coalition’s fault

James Bloodworth
26 June, 2014

Now that coalition reforms are in place, we’re starting to see the true impact of government policy – and inequality is on the rise.

Sections of the press are deliberately painting a false picture of social workers

Bridget Robb
26 June, 2014

Reading some of the media coverage of our child protection system, it would be easy to believe social workers enter the profession to cause harm.

The UN must act to save religious freedom

Ed Jacobs
26 June, 2014

The West should unapologetically stand with those facing persecution for being Christian.

Why the left should be just as angry about Juncker as David Cameron

James Bloodworth
26 June, 2014

The fact that David Cameron recognises the unsuitability of Jean Claude Juncker doesn’t make it any less true.

People shouldn’t be written off for life because of past mistakes

Christopher Stacey
25 June, 2014

Requirements for life-long disclosure of minor cautions are disproportionate.

The brutal impact of austerity on Scotland’s public services

Dave Watson
25 June, 2014

Scotland’s budget is being slashed by more than £6 billion in real terms.

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