What the ONS tells us about assets The distribution of income is, and always has been, an important indicator of...
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debt Articles
It’s the assets, stupid
How Labour should respond to the budget’s pensions shake-up Labour and the Tories share a perverse incentive to talk...
The inconvenient truth about migration
In the past few weeks each of the party leaders have said there needs to be a public debate on immigration. Well,...
Get organised – the prize is worth the struggle
Joe Hill, the Swedish-American trade unionist, wrote a last letter to his fellow members shortly before he faced the...
Daytime TV and the targeting of the poor
I was fortunate enough to be able to take a day’s annual leave last week, in order to catch up on what I will loosely...
Waiting for growth
Waiting for the economic recovery is beginning to feel a little like waiting for Godot. You keep being told it’s going...
Living on the edge
A generation of twentysomethings are joining the ‘squeezed middle’. But many are unaware how precarious their...
Keep centre
Labour needs to find a new way back to a new centre-ground, argues Liam Byrne In the 1990s, progressives learned an...
The credibility deficit
We may be facing the worst financial crisis ever, the Bank of England governor told us last week. Unfortunately, we...
The importance of hope
Once again, turmoil has hit financial markets. Once again, hard questions are being asked of political leaders around...
Grim reading
This morning’s financial headlines made grim reading Thursday's losses across the world’s financial markets have been...
Renting or owning: is that really the choice?
For many years, the housing market boomed and for those who got in early, they've made a killing. In a culture where...