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Serious Obama shows stomach for the fight and a strategy to match
Sara Ibrahim, chair of the Young Fabians, reports from Charlotte, North Carolina on President Barack Obama’s speech.
Reshuffle: Health: The five key priorities for Mr Hunt
Jos Bell looks at the challenges facing new health secretary Jeremy Hunt following his succeeding of the sacked Andrew Lansley in this week’s Cabinet reshuffle.
Extreme weather, extreme prices: Time for governments to ‘stress-test’ global food system
Tracy Carty, Climate Change Policy Advisor at Oxfam, writes about Oxfam’s “Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices: The costs of feeding a warming world” report.
Isolation in the elderly; facing up to the challenge
Vicki Purewal, Head of Nesta’s Centre for Challenge Prizes, writes about the challenge of combating isolation and loneliness amongst pensioners and the elderly.
Time for our leaders to face up to the facts: Austerity is killing jobs and the recovery
It’s time our leaders faced up to the facts: austerity is killing jobs and no amount of discussion on reforming employment policy will disguise that basic fact.
Clinton rides to the rescue, lighting up convention season and firing up the Dems
In the latest in our series of reports from the Democratic National Convention 2012, Sara Ibrahim reports from Charlotte on Bill Clinton’s barnstorming speech.
To fully stretch the brightest and best we need a more serious focus on interventions
To fully stretch the best pupils involves a much more serious focus on interventions within schools that target those children who are falling behind.
For Labour, tackling inequality needs to be at the heart of the political agenda
Professor Kate Pickett writes about the new pamphlet, “Why Inequality Matters”, from the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) and My Fair London.
The population scaremongerers are pedalling the same nonsense as 18th-century sceptics
Don Flynn, director of the Migrants’ Rights Network, rebuts the population myths being pedalled by anti-immigration MPs like Nicholas Soames and Frank Field.
Umunna: The case for an active government and modern industrial policy
Read the text of shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna’s speech todoay to Policy Network’s conference on growth and a new political economy.