Kate Green Articles

What I always find striking about International Women's Day is the breadth of public engagement in what is an intrinsically political cause. IWD is embraced by regular workplaces, community groups, sports teams and faith organisations alike. In the past few years I...

Food banks shame us all – it’s time to hold the government to account. In austerity Britain, children are going to bed hungry and families are facing the distress and humiliation of queuing for emergency food parcels. The coalition government says ‘we’re all in this...

A foothold for Labour We targeted four wards and set a target of 12 councillors. One leading member of the shadow cabinet who visited Aldershot and Farnborough said this was wildly optimistic. It was optimistic and yet we came within five votes of becoming a group of...

This week’s Households Below Average Income figures, which are due to be published on Thursday, are important because they will show the degree of success achieved in meeting the target to halve child poverty by 2010, on the way to Tony Blair’s ambitious aim of ending...