Cherie Booth’s gun crime film is a sad reminder of New Labour’s fatal flaws John Kampfner at Comment Is Free: Labour’s great failure is its micro-political fixation Mail Fail. Daily Mail unsure how they stand on stilettos (geddit?) Paul Cotterill has unearthed this very interesting Daily Mail health warning on high heels from last year [...]

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My previous post called for greater gender balance in politics as a means to ensure that female interests are represented in political debate. I would now like to add the caveat, ‘except Nadine Dorries’, to that point. Today her blog reveals that she has ‘smacked it’ to the TUC with her hardline support for the [...]

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Chris Dillow has been reflecting on gender and decision making. The piece, with its rather gratuitous photograph (watch this space for the Johnny Depp sequence illustrating my next unemployment analysis), implicitly questions whether female underrepresentation in senior posts is a problem – if there is no difference between men and women, then ‘it’s not obvious [...]

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The headline in this morning’s Times newspaper, ‘Britain on the cusp of economic fightback‘, leapt out at me as I reached the station this morning. The article, by Economics Editor Gary Duncan, begins: “Britain appears to be on the verge of economic recovery amid signs that the worst downturn in decades may be coming to [...]

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What are the implications of attitudes to economic inequality? Brendan’s article for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, arguing that it is time for trades unionists to adopt a zero tolerance approach to prejudice against people in poverty.

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According to the Guardian, the Conservative are considering handing over to local authorities the power to set the rates for working age benefits. This isn’t just a silly season story – Lord Hanningfield, who proposed the notion isn’t just the leader of Essex County Council, he’s also the Conservative spokesperson on business in the House [...]

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Turning The Tide: Oxfam GB Oxfam have lauched a new report calling for the Gangmasters Licensing Authority to be extended to sectors including construction and hospitality.

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TUC agency work poll A YouGov survey of agency workers for the TUC has found that one in three (33%) respondents said that directly employed staff were paid more than temps for doing the same work, and nearly half (46%) said they received less holiday entitlement. Three in four (75%) respondents to the poll said [...]

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