contributory principle Articles

What do the public care about? Well, outside immigration and the economy, the pollsters tell us that there is one other topic that dominates the national conversation: welfare. So what you make of the welfare state, and its future, is no small question in British...

We are at a key point in the influence of different generations on our society. The pre-1945 generation is dying out and being replaced in the adult population by generation Y whose members have a very different perspective. The national balance of opinion is shifting...

The IDS-Cait Reilly spat has been both amusing and illuminating, but it poses big questions for Labour, as well as the government. The government has to answer why its flagship policy – the work programme – is going so badly. Before the programme started, the Treasury...

If Labour wins the next election it will inherit a set of challenges on employment and welfare quite different from those it faced in the late 1990s. Increasing the employment rate will be crucial to increasing living standards, given the reduced scope for...