Five reasons the Royal Mail should never have been privatised
Poor value for money is not the only reason to lament the passing of Royal Mail into private hands.
Vince Cable
Zero hour contract consultation attracts 36,000 responses
A government consultation on zero-hours contracts has been flooded with 36,000 responses from people wanting to talk about problems and abuses.
Four ideas to solve the low pay crisis
An anonymous hotline to report employers for shady practices is just one way American activists are looking to tackle their own low pay crisis. Here are four ideas for solving our own.
New figures show taxpayers lost billions on Royal Mail privatisation
New figures reveal that taxpayers lost billions of pounds in the privatisation of the Royal Mail.
A Lib-Lab coalition should not be dismissed out of hand
The most likely scenario in 2015 is a hung-parliament. Policymakers should be considering how they deal with that reality.
Royal Mail sell-off: taxpayer short changed…according to Vince Cable
The taxpayer may have been shortchanged to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds by the sale of the Royal Mail, according to markers laid down by Vince Cable back in October.
Vince Cable’s department slips up on tribunal hearings
In an important development related to the requirement of an employer to consult on redundancies, a red-faced Department For Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has requested permission to appeal against the recent judgment by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the case of USDAW v Woolworths.
Funding for Lending scheme failing as lending falls by £3.8 billion in May
New data published this week shows that banks are still not lending to British businesses, despite the government’s much trumpeted Funding for Lending scheme.
Vince Cable fails to step up to the mark on beneficial ownership by asking corporate fraudsters to self certify their identities
The following was published by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) this morning.
Vince Cable’s New Statesman article makes plain the need for a new economic strategy
Against the backdrop of the loss of the triple-A rating much coveted by Conservative Ministers – and trivialised by others – Cable is right again. Wednesday’s remarkable New Statesman article makes plain the case for a new economic strategy, and the need for as elegant as possible a reversal of Osbornomics that was itself eclipsed by Cable in the economic debates of 2010.