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,…
Lyons does 90% of the job
For housing development nerds the Lyons Housing Commission report, published today, is a cracking read. Commissioned by the Labour Party, and launched by Ed Miliband, it is a serious review…
Universal Credit Plunges Renters Into Arrears
Universal Credit is one of the biggest changes to the welfare system this country has seen. It rolls six means-tested benefits into one, aims to simplify the benefits system and…
Race, Class and Institutional Prejudice
A “new working class” is emerging from the ashes of the old traditional stereotypes of manual labour in traditional industries. That’s one of the conclusions of a new joint report…
A budget speech of a chancellor who is trapped
This blog first appeared on LabourList on 22 March 2024 Well, that wasn’t terribly edifying, was it? I suppose we knew not to expect an exercise in humility from George…