The rollercoaster path of government spending on flood defence
In the media coverage of the flooding in Cumbria and Lancashire there has been some scrutiny of government spending on flood defence, with a claimed cut this year of around…
The importance of free museums in enriching our culture
The debate over whether entry to UK museums should be free for all has arisen again recently, in response to the news that local authority funding cuts (following the summer…
Labour Market Realities: Pressures on Lecturers
Lecturers and university staff continue to be embroiled in a dispute over pensions amid fears of casualisation and marketisation in the sector, senior lecturer Dr Jason Arday tells of the…
What would a further £25bn of spending cuts mean for child poverty?
Last week, George Osborne delivered a speech so unrelenting in its call for more social security cuts it left even the Spectator noting that this would raise further doubts about…
Post-18 Funding Review: Listen to Students or Waste Another Opportunity to Reform a Broken System
That Theresa May was 25 minutes late to the podium for the announcement of a year-long post-18 funding review this week was, in many ways, symbolic of everything that has…
Now a lost eleven years on pay, unprecedented for at least 150 years
Real earnings grew in 2022 by 2.5%, a positive figure for the first time since 2007. I.e. 2022 was the first year when pay growth outstripped inflation in 8 years.*…
Academies are not magic bullets: The Education and Adoption Bill
Last week’s Queen’s speech may have only made a passing reference to education, but the Government has lost no time in pushing forward its new Education and Adoption Bill, which…
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Labour Market Realities: Teachers and the Public Sector Pay Freeze
Some politicians would have us believe that poor wage growth is a bit like the weather, beyond our control and difficult to predict. However in truth, the government has a…
Will the new stamp duty actually cost you more?
There is much to admire about the Treasury’s new way of calculating the stamp duty charged to people buying a home. For example, it gets rid of the distorting “slab”…
The case for a Land Value Tax
This was first published by Labour List on Wednesday 8 May Our current land economy serves us badly. The landed are getting loaded through no hard work of their own,…