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How Labour can embrace a new approach to tackling inequality
High rates of in-work poverty combined with falling support for state safety nets has resulted in a complex equality challenge for Labour. However, it can win public backing for a new approach to collectivism.
Tory money will win this election – unless we stop them
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It’s time for a collective bargaining renaissance
The decline in the bargaining power of labour has been a contributory factor to the fall in living standards.
Manufacturing jobs may be coming back to Britain
Moving production to low cost countries – costing thousands of skilled manufacturing jobs – may be going into reverse.
The Tory Party is no longer the party of business
Tory anti-immigration rhetoric is resulting in a backlash from business.
The fall-out from the carbon bubble bursting could devastate Scotland
Scotland might become the ‘Saudi Arabia of renewables’, as Salmond has promised, but that will mean little unless we stop being the Scotland of oil.
UKIP: a history of cranks and oddballs
Donna Edmunds, a UKIP councillor and candidate in the European elections, has said that businesses should be able to refuse services to women and gay people. She isn’t the first UKIP candidate to court controversy.
The government is messing low paid workers around for political capital
It’s a shame the government has to mess around millions of low paid workers for a relatively small amount of political capital.
Could an independent Scotland really have a healthier credit rating than the UK?
Would Scotland really qualify for Standard & Poor’s “highest economic assessment”?
Clinton tells Northern Ireland to ‘finish the job’
Former US President Bill Clinton has called on Northern Ireland to finish the job started when the Good Friday Agreement was approved in 1997.