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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Sep 30 2011
Dissecting the unions: the differences between unions and Labour’s ‘third way’ agenda are not as great as they might seem.
Leave a commentTweet With aggressive cuts currently being imposed on public services in most European countries, trade unions are again under the media spotlight, often criticised for strike actions and bullying behaviour. But what do we really know about British union members? … Continue reading
Posted by: September 30, 2011
Tagged with: inequality, New Labour, politics, power, public services, Third Way, unions
Sep 30 2011
Council Tax Benefit reforms will pitch young against old, as well as poor against poor
1 CommentTweet One of the proposed reforms of the welfare system is moving the responsibility for Council Tax Benefit to local authorities. However, central government has included a number of stipulations that local authorities must obey that will affect their abilities … Continue reading
Posted by: September 30, 2011
Tagged with: benefit reforms, council tax benefit, localism, public spending, reform, uk government
Sep 29 2011
The Dale Farm case shows that legal authority must be made clear before potentially life-wrecking actions are taken.
Leave a commentTweet Conor Gearty investigates the background of the recent Dale Farm legal action, and finds that, even though the Human Rights Act has not being invoked in this instance, the residents of Dale Farm have been able to use legal … Continue reading
Posted by: September 29, 2011
Tagged with: councils, Dale farm, human rights, judgments, legal cases, legal loopholes
Sep 29 2011
BAE job losses highlight the weaknesses of the Coalition’s growth strategy
Leave a commentTweet British manufacturing suffered another blow yesterday with the announcement that 3000 jobs are set to be lost across the UK, the biggest cuts coming at sites in Lancashire and East Yorkshire. Ed Cox argues that such developments lay bare … Continue reading
Posted by: September 29, 2011
Tagged with: austerity, BAE Systems, coalition, cuts, Economic Policy, economy, government, UK, uk government, uk politics
Sep 29 2011
Ed Miliband’s plans to reward ‘good firms’ sounds good in theory but will be very difficult to implement in practice.
Leave a commentTweet On Tuesday, Ed Miliband used his keynote speech to the Labour Conference in Liverpool to push for ‘good’ firms to be rewarded by government. While this policy may seem attractive, Henry Overman, using the example of innovative clusters, argues that … Continue reading
Posted by: September 29, 2011
Tagged with: business, clusters, competition, Economic Policy, Ed Miliband
Sep 28 2011
Labour’s proposed tuition fees cap does not change the fact that most graduates will never earn enough to repay their loans.
Leave a commentTweet Seizing on the unpopularity of the government’s increase in tuition fees to £9,000 a year, Ed Miliband announced at the start of the Labour Party conference that they would cap fees at £6,000. While this may seem attractive to … Continue reading
Posted by: September 28, 2011
Tagged with: Education, Graduate Tax, Labour, tuition fees, work
Sep 28 2011
Despite initial mistakes, the success of the Sure Start programme has been to prove that government does have a role to play in the development of young children.
5 CommentsTweet Mistakes made in estimations of time-frames and complexities meant that Sure Start did not deliver all the scheme promised. Yet Naomi Eisenstadt argues that the scheme’s one great success has to been to rule beyond doubt that government must … Continue reading
Posted by: September 28, 2011
Tagged with: children, children's services, families, parents, public services, sure start
Sep 27 2011
Rising job insecurity, victimisation, and bullying mean we are getting angrier at work. And so we should be – anger often leads to change.
3 CommentsTweet With job insecurity and unemployment on the rise, many of us have reasons to get angry, and yet, anger is often seen as a character failing rather than a reaction to fear and uncertainty. In the second article in … Continue reading
Posted by: September 27, 2011
Tagged with: anger, jobs, mental health, unemployment, work, workplace
