The housing crisis – who benefits and who loses out?
The housing crisis is radically different from region to region. In London, the housing benefit cap means families…
Ellie Mae O'Hagan
This is the most important election ever – let’s get our facts right
Let’s face it. Things aren’t great are they? I won’t reel off a list of figures about inequality,…
Labour’s unwillingness to state the importance of trade unions: good for business, bad for everyone else
Rachel Reeves gave a speech at Bloomberg yesterday. That Reeves is orating about social security at a financial…
Politicians who recognise that Cameron is wrong on immigration must have the conviction to say so
On Tuesday, David Cameron said Britain would be a “better, stronger country” with fewer migrants. So, if you’re a…
Politics isn’t working when a country as wealthy as Britain can’t feed its people
On Wednesday, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select committee released a report on food security, which I’d…
Deflation and a rise in real incomes aren’t down to Tory policies
The sight of Labour MPs clucking at David Cameron like chickens at yesterday’s PMQs might have distracted LabourList’s…
Charlie Hebdo: perhaps we can take inspiration from satire’s ability to humanise us all
It’s hard to know what to say about the Charlie Hebdo shootings beyond expressing abject sadness. Everything else…
The campaign victories of 2014
As we start looking to the new year (or at least the bit before May), I thought it…
Young people’s mistrust of government should worry Labour
This week I attended the British Election Study conference with my colleagues at Class. It was in…
Pass me my Autumn Statement Alka-Seltzer
With the Autumn Statement tree looking rather forlorn, the disappointing presents unwrapped and the hangovers kicking in, it’s…
