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The UK can learn a lot from Norway on childcare
Compared with other countries, in the UK there are complicated and inefficient mechanisms for the public funding of childcare.
Sorry Boris, but the poor carry the greatest tax burden
The least well off households pay 36.6 per cent of their income in tax compared to 35.5 per cent paid by the wealthiest.
Pay of FTSE 100 bosses grows 20 times faster than average worker
The pay of FTSE 100 directors grew by 14 per cent in the last year – 20 times faster than that of the average worker.
Increasing the personal tax allowance: anything but progressive
Millions of the poorest households gain nothing from increases in the personal tax allowance.
Black supremacist music: a reaction to historical oppression, or something more sinister?
Don’t gloss over the ugliness of black supremacist music but don’t condemn the entire cultural movement out of hand.
This week’s most read: The Tories and YouTube, Grant Shapps, and cycling deaths
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
UK still has joint highest inflation in EU
Inflation in Britain is the joint highest in the EU, according to a relase out today from the statistics office of the European Union.
Sorry Guido, but the Tories really are presiding over a cost of living crisis
Sorry Guido, but there really is a cost of living crisis and it’s getting worse under a Tory government.
Lamont hails day of truth from Scottish government on currency union
The Scottish government must set out the conditions it would be prepared to accept in order to secure its ambitions of an independent Scotland remaining in a currency union with the rest of the UK.