Spring Budget 2025: Our Panel Reacts
Following Philip Hammond’s Spring Budget announcement yesterday, we asked our panel for their reactions. Prof. Prem Sikka, Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex What a wasted opportunity to…
The Financial Crisis: What’s Changed Since August 2007?
9 August 2024 is widely pinpointed as a key date in the timeline of the global financial crisis. Ten years on, Ann Pettifor, Paul Mason and Faiza Shaheen discuss what’s…
0.4% Annual Pay Growth! Is This As Good As It Gets?
Today’s job figures yet again reveal supposedly good news about the state of the UK labour market. The number of people in work remains at a near record high while…
Budget 2022: Our panellists give their reaction
Angela O’Hagan, Women’s Budget Group In his “Budget for Britain – the comeback country”, there is still no comeback for low income families. With a further £12bn off the welfare…
Failing Industrial Strategy Needs An Overhaul
Today’s employment figures do not shine any light on the state of UK manufacturing, but plenty of recent coverage has highlighted the extreme pressures that UK manufacturing is facing in…
Council Cuts Have Hit The Poorest
Despite talk of ‘deal dividends’ and ‘Brexit bribes’, there seems to be no end in sight for local government when it comes to austerity. As the Local Government Association (LGA)…
How can we help the wealthy part with their wealth?
The Wealthy Need to be Helped to Part from Their Wealth A report by Oxfam states that globally the richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of…
What next for social care?
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed more starkly than ever before, the Cinderella status of social care. Left to languish behind calls to protect the NHS, ignored until a mounting death…
It’s time for new priorities to tackle want
Article first appeared on the LSE British politics and policy blog on 13 March 2020. This blog is part of a series connected to the Social State project from the…
Today’s Budget and the crisis in Ukraine
This year’s Budget takes place at a time of high international tension. The issue of energy security has once again shot to the top of the political agenda. The crisis…
The People’s Post: Why we need a strong public voice at the heart of our postal services
When you look at the political landscape in the UK today there has been a seismic shift from the position just five years ago. Whether it is the situation in…