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Joe Hill, the Swedish-American trade unionist, wrote a last letter to his fellow members shortly before he faced the firing squad in Utah in 1915.  What Joe Hill told his supporters contains a truth still relevant for us today when confronting the coalition’s failing...

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 call ‘personal admin’. My planned day of gym-dentist-bank predictably soon became a day of Jeremy Kyle-This Morning-Loose Women. It was then I...

Waiting for the economic recovery is beginning to feel a little like waiting for Godot. You keep being told it’s going to appear but it never actually arrives. This week was no exception, with the independent Ernst & Young ITEM club forecasters telling us the...

A generation of twentysomethings are joining the ‘squeezed middle’. But many are unaware how precarious their situation is, argue Richard Darlington and Laura Bradley The current generation of twentysomethings are feeling a squeeze the like of which their parents have...