The junior partner in the Coalition have been keen to show in their conference this week that their tax policies will deliver a more equal Britain. But are they really progressive?
Do nurses take pride in their jobs? How many doctors take bribes to keep their mouths shut? A retired professor of medicine speaks out on the NHS in this extract from upcoming book 'Public Service on the Brink'.
The everyday heroes of the NHS don't get a mention in the government's rhetoric on 'enterprise' and 'modernising the health service'. But these are the people we can trust to keep us healthy and safe.
Political strikes on weekdays are unlawful in the UK. Now two champions for workers' rights have published a pamphlet challenging this view.
The PFI scheme puts money from the British taxpayer into the pockets of private companies. Parliament has found it to be expensive and unsound. So why are British people still paying hundreds of billions of pounds to continue the scheme?
'Do as you would be done to.' This elementary human principle does not apply to the way the UK expels asylum seekers. It should do and many organisations will continue to make the case until it does.
David Cameron’s recent visit to Russia was the subject of some snide criticism in the Russian and British press. But this superficial approach misses the main point: the purpose of the visit lay elsewhere and a good day’s work was done by both sides, says Britain’s former ambassador Tony Brenton
The creative protesters of UKUncut generated exceptional media coverage of the issue of tax avoidance by Britain's super-rich at the end of 2010. For the first time a group, the Brighton 9, are on trial after they super-glued themselves to a TopShop window. An effort has been mounted to link their
Should the marginal rate of income tax be reduced for very high earners? Jeremy Fox argues that there is no obvious link to growth. But the link to government revenue is much better understood, argues Michael Bullen, and the numbers suggest that 50% is too high
The tendency to press reality into a heritage mould traps England in political aspic, says David Hayes.
The legal eviction from their land of a large community on the edge of London raises disturbing questions about deep-rooted discrimination that Jewish historical experience can help to address, say Keith Kahn-Harris, Simone Abel & Shauna Leven.
