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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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New national infrastructure plan – old North/South divide

Ed Cox
5 December, 2013

London and the South East will together receive three quarters of all transport investment in England in the years ahead.

Censoring the Internet is not the way to fight extremism

Ghaffar Hussain
4 December, 2013

Censorship could push online extremists into the darker recesses of the web.

Is the UK benefit system really too generous?

James Bloodworth
4 December, 2013

By European standards Britain’s benefits system is far from generous.

The government is cutting firefighter pensions by the back door

Fiona Twycross
4 December, 2013

The government is trying to force firefighters to work longer and pay more into their pensions.

Disposable income still lowest since 2005

James Bloodworth
4 December, 2013

Figures out today show that despite the economy being in recovery disposable income remains stuck where is was in 2005, reflecting real falls in wages.

Financial experts raise concerns over Scottish independence debate

Ed Jacobs
4 December, 2013

Taxation and finance experts in Scotland have attacked the SNP’s road map to independence.

The government’s woeful infrastructure record to date

James Bloodworth
4 December, 2013

The coalition’s record to date on infrastructure is woeful.

PISA panic – being honest about what PISA really shows

3 December, 2013

Every three years the education world is thrown into turmoil as the media report findings from the latest PISA study.

Look Left going out shortly – sign up to receive it by email

3 December, 2013

Look Left, our daily political round up, will be going out shortly.

Today’s other education story: faith schools discriminating against poor pupils

James Bloodworth
3 December, 2013

New research has found a striking correlation between religious selection in schools and socio-economic segregation.

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