Month: January 2013 Articles

This week’s news that the House of Lords has rejected the Tories' plans to redraw constituency boundaries for electoral advantage is great news for British democracy. The next challenge is to tackle the low levels of voter registration. Democracy is deep in the DNA of...

Once again this week the European parliament expressed its strong desire to see member states implement urgent measures to tackle staggering levels of youth unemployment in the form of a European Youth Guarantee. With the number of young people in Europe not in work,...

For over 10 years, on and off, I’ve commuted to London to work. It’s become a lifestyle, if not one of choice. While the franchise to run the service in and out of Liverpool Street has changed hands many times in that period, little else has really changed except one...

The announcement that Labour would introduce a job guarantee for over-25s unemployed for two years or more was greeted with quite some confusion in the media and blogosphere. Many critical voices on the left interpreted this simply as Labour getting tough on benefit...