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Don’t feed the troll: The five stupidest Brendan O’Neill articles
To call Brendan O’Neill a professional contrarian would be to elevate him to the status of something he isn’t. Brendan O’Neill is a troll. A professional troll, but a troll nonetheless.
It’s time for Spain’s indignados to grow up
United Left needs a resounding endorsement, shouted loud and clear from the streets, if radical change in Spain is to have a fighting chance.
The logic behind privatised roads is deeply misguided, as we are slowly finding out
Handing over management of major infrastructure to the private sector means decisions over its use are no longer made in the national interest but in the interests of shareholders, which can be very different.
Pensions – an unfinished revolution
Before Mrs Thatcher destroyed Britain’s post-war pension consensus, Beveridge had given us a decent state pension that kept up with earnings, and Barbara Castle had added an earnings related state pension (SERPS) to those whose employers did not provide a decent workplace pension on top.
As well as talking tough on police killers, Theresa May should look at police brutality
The home secretary Theresa May announced today that under the Conservatives those convicted of killing a police officer will have their sentences raised to the ‘whole life’ category, usually reserved for the very worst types of murderer.
Today’s labour market statistics: ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’
The ‘recovery’ in the wider economy is not being matched by rising real wages or rising living standards, instead the demand-constrained UK economy might be stumbling into a lower wage, lower productivity growth model with serious implications for living standards in the future.
For those who argue people are overtaxed in the UK and will run away if rates aren’t cut
This table has just been published by the OECD and shows the “tax wedge” taken from employment earnings for all 34 OECD countries.
Unemployment up 15,000 to 2.52 million
Unemployment rose by 15,000 between January 2013 and March 2013 to 2.52 million, with the unemployment rate rising to 7.8 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
Boris Johnson’s agenda for Europe could be a social and environmental disaster for London
Boris’s free trade agenda for Europe could be a social and environmental disaster for London and the rest of the UK.
The progressive case for ‘dignity in dying’
Assisted dying is not just about patient rights at the end of life but about how society as a whole approaches death and dying, and Lord Falconer’s Bill does not champion rampant individualism but rather it challenges paternalism and the imposition of unshared principles. It is a progressive cause of our time, and an issue that will affect us all. It is time for change.