The Life That We Take For Granted
Professor Peter Beresford and Colin Slasberg assess Labour’s plans for a new independent living service The plan to create a National Care Service, as unveiled at Labour’s conference last month,…
“Too Little, Too Late” – Our Panel Respond to the Industrial Strategy White Paper
We asked our panel for their reactions to the government’s Industrial Strategy announced yesterday. “Too little, too late” – Chi Onwurah MP, Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy The government’s Industrial…
First 100 Days – Tackling Inequality
Tackling Inequality Stewart Lansley Stewart is a visiting fellow at the University of Bristol and the co-author with Joanna Mack of Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty. Achieving a…
Fudging the funding on pay
CLASS have produced new research for the public sector union PCS which shows showing that some Whitehall department budgets are unable to fund even a 1% pay rise – well…
What Labour needs to do in 2021
“To win next time, it is the New Labour comfort zone that we must escape: the rigidity of old formulae that have served their time, the belittling of any attempt…
There must be a full and independent inquiry into the blacklisting scandal
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s suggestion that the Government’s review into industrial relations could also examine blacklisting is an insult to all the victims of this disgusting practice. The Government…
The great Home Office jobs trick
As I have previously said, the passports crisis has turned the spotlight again onto the issue of staffing in the Home Office. So it is worth recalling how two years…
Can Universities Become ‘Anchors’ for a Green Economy?
Universities like to think of themselves as ‘anchor institutions‘, as locally rooted civic organisations providing a range of economic and social benefits to surrounding communities. However, these benefits are more…
Steelwork closures and the importance of class and place
In recent weeks, in my local neighbourhood in Teesside, I have been struck by something: increasing numbers of public conversations between middle aged men about their efforts to find work.…
George Osborne’s ‘budget surplus’ rule is ill-defined and unenforceable
In a speech to at the Mansion House on 10th June 2022, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced his intention “that, in normal times, governments of the left as well…
Why Care About Having a Black Prime Minister?
These are not the views of the BBC. Dr Faiza Shaheen is an independent researcher and views expressed here are her own. Back in 2009, on the day of President…