EXCLUSIVE: Leading academics set out how to stop the coronavirus crash becoming a Depression
Dozens of academics call for new social rights to be introduced now to avert an economic catastrophe.
Dozens of academics call for new social rights to be introduced now to avert an economic catastrophe.
Tory policies have fragmented society and left us all feeling isolated. Creating a ‘Minister for Loneliness’ now is too little too late
The only era remotely comparable is the 1920s, covering the economic chaos at the end of the war and the disastrous return to the gold standard
Jeremy Corbyn’s creation of a ministerial post dedicated to mental health was welcome and long overdue. This week we’re looking at some of the problems facing mental health services in the UK, and what can be done
60 per cent of people with a psychotic disorder live in a household with an income of less than £300 per week
Taking your own life is not easy. I know I’ve tried, and obviously failed. When you commit suicide you haven’t lost a battle with depression or illness or whatever it maybe. No, you have won – you have taken the final step away from an insoluble problem.
Something strange has been happening in stock markets since 2008: they have been going up. Not just up, but absolutely flying. Through the prolonged failed recovery, unemployment, an investment crisis, the Fukushima crisis and the EU debacle, Wall street, still the market all else look to, has doubled in value.
With today’s GDP figures confirming this is the longest depression in modern UK history, IPPR’s Spencer Thompson asks why the economy is still creating jobs.
Manufacturing’s strong rallying out of the 2008 recession, was killed stone dead at the turn of 2011, as effects of the government’s economic policies kicked in.
IPPR North researcher Lewis Goodall reflects on the 2012 local election results in Northern England.