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It was like listening to a conversation through two baked bean tins and a piece of string … with cotton wool wedged in my ears. I could just about manage to catch Red Ken’s dulcet tones banging on about Blair (or it could have been Clare!) and how the neoliberals sold...

The report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Is Britain Fairer?, published late last year, drew further attention to the growing problem of youth poverty. While the proportion of older people living in poverty has fallen sharply, this figure has gone in the...

This is arguably an existential moment for the United Kingdom as a manufacturer. The closure of Port Talbot's blast furnace would mean we no longer make steel as opposed to processing and recycling steel. If we allow this to happen we will lose the modern, high...

The government talks a really good talk when it comes to mental health. Any time mental health is raised at prime minister's questions, David Cameron is very quick to let us know that we have 'parity of esteem' for mental health. This very important principle was...