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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 With less than a fortnight before the Pre-Budget Report on December 9th, Will Straw at Left Foot Forward has set out five "red lines" that he says the Government must not cross, which are summarised below but…
By Peter Thomson The best thing about the 'Nye Bevan is the one wot done it' piece the other day was that it made me revisit the original 1942 Beveridge Report and review what the fundamental function of the Welfare System is and that is to…
By Joe Cox / @compassoffice Today Compass published its report "In Place of Cuts". The report sets out tax proposals which would see 90% of income earners benefit from reforms that make Britain's tax system fairer. At present…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The managing director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has today backed Gordon Brown's fiscal stimulus policy, agreeing with Labour that it must not be withdrawn too soon. Speaking at the CBI, Struass-Kahn…
The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters Column In the early 1990s, Clinton advisor James Carville said: "I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to…
By Sophia Parker This week's labour market statistics make for less depressing reading than they have done in a while - with the smallest increase in unemployment since March-May 2008. But although the deterioration has slowed, the…
By Joe Cox / @compassoffice According to today's Guardian there is a 'fierce debate' within government around how to tackle wealth inequality, with rumours that a High Pay Commission may be established. This is good news for egalitarians…
The return of the Duncan Weldon Economics Matters column It seems a long time since I last wrote anything for LabourList in early August. A lot has happened since then - party conference season, the battle over the NHS, the fight over the…
By Mark Hanson / @markhanson The "George Osborne: Wrong on recession, Wrong on recovery" internet campaign is the latest example of Labour producing the collateral to enable their supporters to spread their message for them. The campaign…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Official data this morning showed that the recession is now the longest since records began in 1955, after GDP fell by 0.4% in the third quarter of this year - the sixth consequtive quarter of contraction…
By James Stafford Ideology is back in politics. It's time our terminology caught up. The acid test of any political statement is whether or not it's possible for any sane person to disagree with it. "I want a stronger, fairer Britain,"…
By Chris Cook My first reaction on reading of President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace prize, after just nine months in office, was perplexity, as was my second and third. But perhaps the prize was awarded not in recognition for what the US…
