| Economy and
society |
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The price is not right
Deborah Littman on the Government’s misguided public service pay policy
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Mar/Apr 2008 |
City futures in a global era
Robin Hambleton examines the role of governance in managing the urban explosion |
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Jan/Feb 2008 |
Free market on the rocks
Prem Sikka on how the taxpayer has to bail out the 'risk takers'
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Nov/Dec 2007 |
Hierarchies of exclusion
Don Flynn seeks to make sense of the immigration debate |
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Nov/Dec 2007 |
Drugs - It's prohibition stupid!
The 'war on drugs' dominated the 20th century. Mike Davis dissects a failed policy finding the time is ripe for a debate on a new approach.
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Sept/Oct 2007 |
Limits of work and benefits strategy
Tackling worsening child poverty and inequality will require more than a revamped department, argues Kate Green
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Sept/Oct 2007 |
Pity about the reality
Angela Neustatter reports on the Blair legacy for youth justice |
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Sept/Oct 2007 |
Does comprehensive education have a future?
Fiona Millar wonders whether a Brown government will make the tough political decisions needed to realise the comprehensive ideal
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Jul/Aug 2007 |
Wake up and smell the coffee!
Patrick Vernon calls for an apology
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May/Jun 2007 |
Labour's contract culture
Dexter Whitfield despairs of Labour
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May/Jun 2007 |
Pete Smith 1949-2007
Obituary and selection of writing |
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Mar/Apr 2007 |
Rich country, poor pensions
UK Pensions Bill fails the future test, argue Austin Mitchell and Prem Sikka
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Mar/Apr 2007 |
Whatever happened to investigative reporting?
Jean Seaton reflects on whether society
will pay for the media it needs |
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Jan/Feb 2007 |
We're all mental
Identifying and treating the significant
minority of children and young people with a mental health
disorder is a vital step in tackling anti-social behaviours
argues Dinah Morley |
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Nov/Dec 2006 |
Community meltdown
Tim Root looks behind the veil at the empty
rhetoric of community cohesion |
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Nov/Dec 2006 |
Putting a dampner on boom and bust
Chris Huhne MP on why a land tax matters |
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Sept/Oct 2006 |
We don’t want no Blairucation
Dave Lister says most people want good
local schools not market-place type choice |
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Sept/Oct 2006 |
A Future For Public Ownership
As jobs tumble and prices rise in privatised water and electricity
utilities John Grieve Smith questions the view that private
means cheaper and better |
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Sept/Oct 2006 |
Out of poverty
Kate Green applauds Labour’s achievements
on reducing child poverty but asks where is the left on strategic
debate to meet targets? |
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Sept/Oct 2006 |
Beyond the condom taboo
Will a new document from the Vatican herald
a new era in HIV prevention for the Catholic church? Christine
Allen expresses a guarded optimism |
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July/Aug 2006 |
Are we really having it so good?
Frank Lee tackles the left-liberal literati about the UK
economy |
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July/Aug 2006 |
Pension misery for millions
Adair Turner’s report on the pensions
crisis fails to address the question of redistribution, says
Prem Sikka |
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Mar/Apr 2006 |
Stigmatising sex workers
New government strategy continues to treat
prostitution as a social problem rather than a labour and human
rights issue says Dr Ana Lopes |
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Mar/Apr 2006 |
Unequal Britain
John Grieve-Smith examines the reasons for
the widening equality gap opening under new Labour. |
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Mar/Apr 2006 |
Debts of despair
Chris Wearmouth on the prospect of being
debt-laden from school to grave |
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Jan/Feb 2006 |
Corporations rule not OK
All stakeholders should have a say in
the running of the major corporations that, often corruptly,
control our lives argues Prem Sikka |
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Jan/Feb 2006 |
London bombings and alien panics
Antony Taylor on parallels with Victorian anarchists |
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Nov/Dec 2005 |
Lurching into nationalism
Trevor Fisher argues nationalism is no response to fundamentalism |
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Nov/Dec 2005 |
Rights, freedoms and terror
Shami Chakrabarti on Blair's reaction to the bombings |
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Nov/Dec 2005 |
Demonising Muslims will not reduce terror
Yasmin Qureshi challenges us not to fall
into the same trap our government and media seem to have done. |
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Sept/Oct 2005 |
Public sector provision: is the voluntary sector
the answer?
Mary Chadwick spells out the issues. |
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Sept/Oct 2005 |
Getting welfare rights back on the agenda
Kate Green warns that otherwise Labour risks missing its anti-poverty
targets. |
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Sept/Oct 2005 |
Labour’s illusory reforms
Democratic accountability requires a bonfire
of the quangos, says Dexter Whitfield. |
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Sept/Oct 2005 |
What happened at Longbridge?
More rather than less government intervention in MG Rover might have prevented
the excesses and failure of the Pheonix Four, argues Richard Burden. |
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July/Aug 2005 |
Cook's column
By Martin Cook |
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July/Aug 2005 |
New opiate of the people
Anna Bluston on popes, royals and the
cult of celebrity. |
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May/June 2005 |
Good
to talk
Anna Bluston on freedon to attack or defend religion. |
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Mar/Apr 2005 |
Blair's challenge to 'Bourneville Man'
The tsunami disaster highlights the question of debt
relief. Are we willing to pay more asks Chris Wearmouth. |
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Jan/Feb 2005 |
Hand in hand without fear of reprisal
Public views of gays and lesbians lag behind progressive
legal advances argues Steven Allen. |
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July/Aug 2004 |
Follow the flag
Pete Smith reflects on patriotism. |
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July/Aug 2004 |
Let's here it
for nannies
Anna Bluston defends the idea of a caring state. |
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May/June 2004 |
Double, Bubble, Trouble
It's just a matter of time before the US economy slumps,
says Frank Lee |
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Mar/Apr 2004 |
The Secret Policeman's real secret
It's hard not to be racist in the modern police service,
says Don Flynn |
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Mar/Apr 2004 |
We’re all mental
Anna Bluston says many of us will have mental health
problems and talking therapies can help |
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Jan/Feb 2004 |
Sects and the city
In looking at religious sects Pete Smith sees the
Nation of Islam as the Protestant ethic dressed up in the
trappings of black nationalism |
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Jan/Feb 2004 |
The last Crusader
James Clegg on the legacy of the Jarrow
crusade |
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Jan/Feb 2004 |
Think European
on health
Health embraces social and geographical areas, by Steve Illiffe |
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Nov/Dec 2003 |
That's great but...
Children's Commissioner without power argues Steven Allen |
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Nov/Dec 2003 |
A leading question
'Do as we say' lesson lost on youth, says Andreas Koumi. |
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July/Aug 2003 |
Alien Resurrection
Consumerism, therapy, the lottery, they're all part of
more pervasive contemporary alienation, says Pete Smith. |
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July/Aug 2003 |
The poverty of human rights?
Don Flynn reports on the waning of the hopes for a
strong new human rights alliance between government and civil
society. |
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Mar/Apr 2003 |
Ageing Timb
Bomb
Flexibility on retirement age could ease pensions cost, says John Grieve-Smith. |
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Mar/Apr 2003 |
Gun Crime
Ending black alienation is key to problem, says Pete Smith. |
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Mar/Apr 2003 |
Free-born John
Pete Smith on the Leveller leader, John Lilburne.
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Jan/Feb 2003 |
A global Robin Hood
Matti Kohonen and
Helena Kotkowska on the rise of a new social movement aiming
to redistribute wealth through taxing currency transactions.
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Jan/Feb 2003 |
Protection racket
Maurice Frankel on restrictions on freedom of information. |
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Nov/Dec 2002 |
World Cup 2002: triumph
of the globalised game?
Don Flynn says that the glamour of the World Cup can't hide
the fact that football everywhere is teetering on the brink
of disaster. |
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Sept/Oct 2002 |
The Mass Psychology of Capitalism
Frank Lee examines the evidence for the view that 'things can
only get better' but doesn't find any - at least in the short
term. |
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Sept/Oct 2002 |
Citizenship of fools
David Floyd on the link between schools and immigrants |
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July/Aug 2002 |
Class War
Pete Smith sees new educational apartheid fo 14-19 year-olds |
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May/June 2002 |
Great Golden Jubilee swindle
Andrew Stevens says resist peer pressure on Jubilee fest |
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May/June 2002 |
A fridge too far
Anita Pollack on Britain's refrigerator mountain |
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Mar/April 2002 |
Long to reign over us
Bernard Misrahi on the royals, jubilees and personal politics |
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Mar/April 2002 |
No sex please, we're American
Mike Davis on sex conservatives in US classrooms |
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Jan/Feb 2002 |
Pity the poor immigrant
Don Flynn examines Labour's immigration debate |
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Nov/Dec 2001 |
Why drugs are illegal
Trevor Turner explains why the drugs laws don't work |
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Sept/Oct 2001 |
Riots of separation
Jock Young on why the recent riots are different from the 1980s |
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Sept/Oct 2001 |
Closing the casino
John Grieve Smith on reforming the global finance system |
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July/Aug 2001 |
Can we make things again
Denis MacShane reviews policy on industry and the regions |
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Mar/April 2001 |
Big Mac politics
Pete Smith on the globalisation of consumer culture |
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Mar/April 2001 |
Decline and Fall
Frank Lee looks back at the work of John Maynard Keynes |
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Jan/Feb 2001 |
Jack Straw's dilemma
Donn Flynn on issues raised by human rights legislation |
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Nov/Dec 2000 |
A fiscal Loch Ness Monster
Harry Barnes welcomes sightings of a new tax on speculators |
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Sept/Oct 2000 |
Women are not simply gender
Mike Davis interviews Lynn Segal on feminist directions |
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July/Aug 2000 |
Sex, lies and stereotypes
Mike Davis on what kids should be taught in sex education |
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May/June 2000 |
Not a blank sheet
Richard Burden MP on the Rover crisis |
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May/June 2000 |
Corporate racism - words and reality
Donn Flynn on little progress since Macpherson
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Mar/Apr 2000 |
Trusting our mutual friends
Glyn Thomas says Labour should defend the mutuals |
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Mar/April 2000 |
Pot luck
David Floyd reviews the state of play in the drugs debate |
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Mar/April 2000 |
CTC is dead - long live best value
Mary Creagh, councillor for Highbury |
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