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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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Chuka Umunna speech: more important than you think

Cormac Hollingsworth
5 March, 2014

Chuka Ummuna has set out Labour’s plans to institutionalize the developmental state and the rise in productivity it achieved in 1997-2010 to solve the living standards crisis.

Food banks

The Trussell Trust supplies 600,000 emergency parcels in nine months

David Christie
5 March, 2014

New figures released by the Trussell Trust show that the food bank charity provided emergency parcels containing three days food more than 600,000 times between April and December last year.

Immigration benefits Britain. But it benefits some more than others

James Bloodworth
5 March, 2014

Immigration means different things to different people. The left should recognise that.

Public more worried about Tory relationship with big business than about Labour and the unions

James Bloodworth
5 March, 2014

The public are more concerned about the Tory Party’s relationship with big business than they are worried about Labour’s relationship with the trade unions.

Salmond goes to London as the IFS goes to Scotland

Ed Jacobs
5 March, 2014

Alex Salmond last night delivered a speech in London in which he declared that an independent Scotland would be good for the economy of the remainder of the UK.

Apprenticeships must be more than just another vocational option for the non-academic

Rhian Johns
5 March, 2014

The apprenticeship brand has work to do to adapt its image for a new generation of workers.

The government is backing coal and downgrading the climate

Jimmy Aldridge
4 March, 2014

The government say they are committed to decarbonisation and that they want to move away from coal. But in reality their policies are improving the economics of coal and undermining the transition to a low-carbon system.

Sorry Boris, but taking children away from their parents won’t stop radicalisation

Jonathan Russell
4 March, 2014

There is very little academic evidence to suggest that parents play a key role in radicalisation.

What the British left is saying about Ukraine

James Bloodworth
4 March, 2014

A look at how the British left has responded to the Russian invasion of Crimea.

Video: Russia Today anchor Abby Martin slams Russian invasion of Ukraine

James Bloodworth
4 March, 2014

A presenter on Russia Today, the Kremlin’s propaganda arm, has denounced the Russian invasion of Ukraine live on air.

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