Deprecated: Function wp_make_content_images_responsive is deprecated since version 5.5.0! Use wp_filter_content_tags() instead. in /home/edadbce1/archive.progressivebritain.org/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114

OECD Articles

A Brexit for workplace rights?

Instead of focusing on the issues that matter, the Conservative party is again descending into one of its periodic bouts of Europhobic obsession, as evidenced yet again today with their site Let Britain Decide. Immigration is perhaps the main cause of their unease...

Opportunity Cost: What price predistribution and industrial activism?

George Osborne has indeed set a fiscal trap. To accept his cuts is economic madness. To reject them is electoral suicide. If Labour accepts the ‘spending envelope’, Labour undermines its ‘too far, too fast’ argument, the IMF’s belated agreement with our stance and, as...

Next top model

Ed Miliband’s ‘Borgen tour’ highlighted Labour’s interest in Scandinavia. But what does the famed ‘Nordic model’ actually mean? Katrine Kielos explains THE ‘Nordic model’ is a popular concept but also a disputed one. Is the success of the Nordic economies due to high...

Understanding freedom of movement

Free movement of workers in the EU is a reason millions of UK citizens have benefited from 40 years of European membership, allowing us to up-sticks and move somewhere more exotic; anywhere from Nice to Nicosia. While the immigration debate tends to focus on EU...