First 100 Days – Restoring Access to Juctice
Restoring Access to Justice Prof Marjorie Mayo Marjorie Mayo is Emeritus Professor of Community Development at Goldsmiths, University of London. Access to justice is not only about ensuring people’s rights,…
No Deal Brexit Papers Exercise In Pantomime and Menace
And so, perhaps inevitably, it’s come to this. After almost two years of Brexit talks between the EU and Britain’s best interlocutors (plus David Davis) last week we were presented…
Young Parents Trapped By Welfare System
At a recent Joseph Rowntree Foundation event on destitution in the UK, a government minister claimed the government had, since 2010, performed a “jobs miracle”. Citing record levels of employment,…
Wind Pledge Lacks Cash
Boris Johnson’s Conservative Conference speech on “Building Back Greener” responds to the failure of a private model to create green jobs. But the spending remains too low to create the…
At the core of Tory policy is a desire to shift publicly-owned housing into private hands
Two pillars of current Tory thinking have been pushed together in today’s announcement on housing. First, their unflinching desire to reduce social housing through right-to-buy, and second their belief that…
Brexiteers Hard Right Agenda a Threat to Workers Rights
Has Theresa May survived? Perhaps – it is still too early to say, but what is clear is that while the Tories continue to negotiate between themselves on what Brexit…
Progressive Forces for a New Europe
Claude Moraes MEP writes that there is a great thirst on the Left for common progressive solutions in a reformed European Union Newly-elected MEPs will take up their seats next…
It’s time to remortgage – put rents to use on a new wave of council house building
Housing has moved rapidly up the political agenda over the past year or so. And it’s about time too. The problems in the housing system are now hard to ignore.…
College Teachers Fight For Fairer Pay
Members of the University and College Union from13 different colleges have been on strike action this week over pay. The two-day walkouts represent the second wave of action in response…
Mutual Housing Offers More than Markets
Social housing is gradually being pushed towards a commercial future of quasi-markets and provision of ‘affordable’ housing for a wider variety of income groups. But a new report argues that…
University Staff Strike to Protect Their Pensions and Their Profession
The University and College Union (UCU) is currently in dispute over proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) which would see members lose around £10,000 a year in retirement…