Deborah Padfield, a citizen’s advice bureau adviser, returns to report from the poverty line. In the fourth of a series of five posts, she describes the debilitating levels of insecurity under which benefits claimants, and especially those with disabilities, are often forced to live
The Labour party would be the losers if they cut the Blue Labour project adrift due to misjudged comments on immigration. The controversy provoked by Blue Labour ideas is healthy for the party, and a sign that Labour may be able to regenerate itself
The star of Blue Labour, a key project influencing the re-shaping of the Labour party, appears to be waning, after controversial remarks made by its informal leader on immigration. But we must hold onto the valuable aspects of Blue Labour thinking, which have already made their mark on the party
As part of an ongoing crackdown on squatters, the government has released a consultation proposing the criminalisation of squatting. Here, voices from the squatting community, rarely heard in the mainstream, give their views on the proposal
"We are really going back a few steps. . . . just lost expertise, data, everything . . . for me, it’s almost like burning down a library". Elizabeth Kennedy reports on the severe impact funding cuts are having on Roma youth in the UK
Deborah Padfield, a citizen’s advice bureau adviser, returns to report from the poverty line. In the third of a series of five posts, she examines the drive to get claimants off benefits. Should we be deterring state 'scroungers', or helping the 'work-hungry' masses into employment?
A reformed upper House could provide a check on the power that the executive currently hold in Britain. Yet the proposed reforms would give the House of Lords democratic legitimacy, without extending their powers to hold the executive to account
