Budget 2021: Our panellists give their reaction
Daisy Sands, Head of Policy & Campaigns at the Fawcett Society Today’s budget contained a little help but a lot of hurt for women. The greatest hit came with the…
When the gambling industry realised women were potential customers, it reeled them in
Walk down the average British high street these days and you’ll notice a collection of vacated betting shops. This sight would appear to reassure researchers who have long noted that…
Social Care Needs a Plan. What We Heard From the Prime Minister Isn’t It.
Plan. noun. A set of decisions about how to do something in the future. When Boris Johnson stood in the Commons two weeks ago to set out his government’s Health…
Whose recovery is it?
We live in strange times. It is a world where nothing is quite as it seems. For tuning in to the news, picking up the daily papers or checking out…
We cannot let the government get away with the Trade Union Bill
Today, trade union members from across the UK descend on parliament to tell their MPs to oppose the Trade Union Bill. Last week the Committee Stage of the Bill drew…
Social State: The Most Important Part of the Welfare State: The NHS
Want, Ignorance, Idleness, Squalor and Disease. Of these five ‘Giant Evils’ identified by Beveridge the most important is the last one: disease. If you are sick or infirm the problems…
Too often public opinion about migration is based on false information
For years, immigration has consistently ranked among the top concerns in surveys of the British public. In response, political leaders have repeatedly made efforts to show that they can bring…
The Stakes: Brexit
Where are we at? Brexit has dominated politics and policy in the UK ever since the polarising referendum campaign ended in a vote to leave the EU last year. Negotiations…
The Austerity Strategy Has Failed – March for A Future That Works
Why Inequality Matters ,which has recently been produced by the Labour Movement based think tank Class, is just the right pamphlet at just the right time. It starts with Richard…
The Trade Bill is a Power Grab, and It Must Be Stopped Fast
Our constitution is being rewritten, under the rubric of carrying out the ‘will of the people’, by a government which wants to keep as much power as possible to itself.…
The Facts: Housing
Access to affordable and good quality housing should be a right, not a luxury. But right now, the UK housing market is failing young people, low and medium earners, and…