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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 On the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman, Politcal Scrapbook is carrying this exlcusive: On 15 September 2008, investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, transforming a credit drought into the…
By Rowenna Davis / @rowenna_davis I'm no party demagogue, but Harriet Harman, I salute you today. Few know it, but today's exposure of an 80% gender pay gap in the city is to her credit. She may have climbed down on making companies publish…
by Stuart White The debate over inequality is often framed in terms of the distribution of income. But it is also important to focus on wealth: the stocks of assets which individuals have as distinct from the flows of income they receive…
By Gary Kent Some ideas are nurtured for decades before they shoot to prominence, usually to the surprise of those who have long advocated them. This could be the fate of the Tobin Tax, originally devised by the American Nobel Laureate…
By Joshua Genner On the front page of Thursday's Evening Standard, and inside Fridays's Daily Mail, Boris Johnson was again on his high horse badmouthing much needed changes. Lord Turner, chief of the Financial Services Authority called for…
By Peter Barnard Lord Turner, Chairman of the FSA, despatched a cat towards some plump pigeons in the City of London this last week when he was quoted from a seminar with Prospect magazine as thinking that some of the activities in the City…
By Rhian Jones As the recession continues to bite, commentators continue to scrap over which of us bears the most impressive teeth marks: part-time and temporary female workers, those stuck in Britain's post-industrial wastelands, or the…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter The Krug is flowing once more. Lehman Brothers are dust but that's just left juicier morsels for the remainder. Credit crunch? So 2007 darling - drop a text to your banker…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter The Krug is flowing once more. Lehman Brothers are dust but that's just left juicier morsels for the remainder. Credit crunch? So 2007 darling - drop a text to your banker…
By Joe Cox Tom Harris' post this morning referred to a very powerful analogy for New Labour thinking that read as follows: "There's a terrific scene in the TV adaptation of Chris Mullin's A Very British Coup in which the newly-elected left…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Tom Harris is worried about calls for action on top pay, fearing we are on the slippery slope to repudiating New Labour. This seems to be driven by Harris's specific worry that "I imagine the so-called High Pay…
By Tom Harris MP There's a terrific scene in the TV adaptation of Chris Mullin's A Very British Coup in which the newly-elected left wing prime minister, Harry Perkins, is catching the train to London and is asked by a journalist: "Do you…
