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Pensions reform may not be the sexiest of topics in Parliament, but you can be guaranteed that if we live to retirement age it is one area that will directly affect every one of us. Today, the Fabian Women’s Network is holding a public debate on the Coalition’s pension reforms and their impact on women. Speakers include pensions minister Steve Webb, shadow pensions minister Rachel Reeves, Baroness Patricia Hollis and Michelle Mitchell from Age UK.

Ahead of the upcoming report on the funding of political parties, Peter
Watt looks at how changes to the way Labour raises money could bring
about a stronger relationship with the trade unions and the public at
large

The liberalisation of world trade has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and made the world richer, but we must do more to help those who lose out from globalisation.

A collapse in Lib Dem support looks likely to help the Conservatives far more than Labour at the next election, says Alan Middleton of the Governance Foundation.