growth Articles

Freed from the workload of shadow ministerial brief, Tristram Hunt is clearly spending his time trying to contribute to Labour’s intellectual renewal. In the wake of Labour’s defeat in May, the Fabian Society’s Facing the Future programme has asked, ‘What would the...

In the United Kingdom we have a long history of attributing the struggles of cities outside of the south of England to the decline of more traditional industries. Politicians from all parties have sought to reverse these trends, but in seeking to improve city...

The UK economy is growing at a relatively fast rate at present. The first estimate of GDP growth in 2014 is that the economy expanded 2.6 per cent. Recent survey data suggest the rate of expansion increased across the economy last month. Lower fuel and food costs are...

Unpaid internships represent one of the biggest changes to employment since the start of the economic downturn, undermining the principle of decent work in three ways. First, unpaid interns usually do real work, undermining the minimum wage and potentially supplanting...