ATOS are drinking in the last chance saloon
As some of you know, I’ve spent the past week at home with a bad back, unable to…
Kate Green
Does your family fit the Tories outdated agenda?
After threats of backbench rebellion, government assurances, and further threats, David Cameron has finally succumbed to his backbenchers…
Labour must not stop supporting family incomes
There’s much to welcome in Nick Pearce’s call on Comment is Free yesterday for a renewed child poverty…
Building One Nation politics
Tory policies – on social security, on tax, on public service spending cuts, on the NHS, on education,…
The government has a blindspot when it comes to women
Maria Miller’s claim that it’s the Conservative Party that’s stood up for woman would be laughable if it…
What might a revived contributory principle look like?
Social security’s the cause of much soul searching on the left: despite the legacy of Labour’s progressive universalism…
A new welfare bargain
Welfare is Labour’s toxic issue. Recent evidence comes from a YouGov poll for Prospect: 74 per cent agree…
Employment and equalities
Last week I argued that we need to put equalities issues centre stage when we think about the…
Equalities can’t be an afterthought when spending decisions are made
Yesterday’s report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) shows serious shortcomings in the Government’s approach to…
Why do we need a women’s conference?
By Kate Green MP Looking ahead to this weekend and the start of conference, I’m personally delighted that…
