Tag Archive: Comment

May 08

Labour’s lesson after Ukip: put more passion into your politics

The opposition did well last week, but it now needs to be bolder, more authentic, and really put the case for borrowing to invest

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Apr 09

Why zero-hours contracts remind me of the horrors of 1990s Russia

The degraded and demonised precariat is scrambling around in a twilight zone of ‘jobs’ in which they must remain on standby

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Mar 20

Michael Owen’s retirement deprives us of a misunderstood footballer

This goal machine proved all too mortal but there is nothing robotic about him in the opinion of those he worked with

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Dec 14

Exposed: the myth of a ‘culture of worklessness’

Extensive research shows that families experiencing long-term unemployment remain committed to the value of work

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Nov 13

Vulnerable homeless people face an astonishing shift in housing policy

Councils will now be considered to have fulfilled their duty to homeless people by helping them rent from private landlords

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Nov 09

Cameron’s dementia campaign will be a missed opportunity

Unless the Dementia Friends initiative incorporates the Specal method, a lot of money and good intentions will go to waste

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Nov 06

Is it ever OK to decide that a person is so old they are beyond repair?

We’re in trouble when we start viewing people in the same way we do cars and choose to stop replacing faulty body parts

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