• BBC iPlayer – Jobless
  Not the programme about unemployed famous people – this is an extremely poignant documentary about the harsh realities of unemployment for family life.
• Anti-Slavery Home Alone End Domestic Slavery
  A new anti-slavery campaign to end domestic slavery and create an ILO convention to protect domestic workers worldwide.
• Jeffrey Sachs backs the Robin Hood tax
  A short video of Jeffrey Sachs from his appearance at the RSA

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• Paul Mason: Sterling panic = cage fight: markets vs the state (and the Robin Hood tax)
  Sterling plummets to $1.47. Cue orchestrated panic in sections of the press. Analysts bombard me with e-mails saying the currency is “facing the abyss”. Highly paid economists weigh in to remind the government – current and incoming – to slash the wages of low paid public servants, close museums and let social housing crumble. But hold on a minute. In April 2009 sterling was $1.37

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• Why does the UK need Robin?
  Ben Morgan of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme highlights just why the cash that the Robin Hood Tax would generate for use in the UK is so desperately needed.

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• Left Foot Forwards: Public turned off by ‘age of austerity’
  Forty per cent of people were more concerned that state services would be cut back too deeply. Meanwhile, only twenty five per cent said that their greater fear was that the deficit would not be tackled with sufficient speed.

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• The Independent View: The Robin Hood Tax
  Owen has a guest post on the case for a financial transaction tax at Lib Dem Voice

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• BBC white-washes Geoffrey Howe’s record on unemployment
  Paul Cotterill at Liberal Conspiracy pulls the Beeb up on their recent political history

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• Underemployment in the UK labour market
  ONS’s recent analysis of underemployment and the impact of the recession
• Daily Mail: Alex Brummer: Cynical and shameless: Quite simply, Britain’s bankers …
  We weren’t very happy with Alex Brummer’s recent New Statesman piece on pensions, but this is splendid stuff from today’s Daily Mail
• Britain’s Deficit – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com
  Paul Krugman is a bit of a hero at Touchstone towers- and here he is writing sense about Britain (hat tip: Luis Enrique).

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• 350 economists call for a financial transaction tax
  An open letter to the G20 in favour of the Robin Hood Tax, signed by 350 economists from across 35 countries.
• Tax Research UK: What a load of sabre rattling
  Mark Lee, a former chair of the Tax Faculty at the Institute of Chartered Accountants, pooh-poohs the idea that big companies are about to move off-shore
• Purnell sets out his grand vision | Left Foot Forward
  In a speech at the LSE James Purnell has suggested that 1% of the money spent by the Government to bail out the banks should be set aside for regulated lending to low income working families. Purnell has suggested that this money could be set aside by the Government as an endowment, which could be run by local civic organisations including trade unions.

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• Robin Hood Tax: How the RHT differs from the Tobin tax.
  Dave HIllman explains that the Robin Hood tax is primarily about raising money, not putting sand in the wheels of currency exchange

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• The BBC models AV votes for previous elections
  Would the alternative vote electoral system have changed history?
• The Robin Hood Tax
  Campaign website for the coalition backing a new financial transaction tax. Have you signed up yet?

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