Category Archives: Social Justice

David Blunkett’s favourite word is ‘reciprocity’

What does Right & Left mean?”, I was asked at the weekend. My bumbling explanation journeyed from the French Revolution towards ownership, state intervention, communism, Hayek, and finally ended up on law & order policies. After all of this my … Continue reading

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Why Ed Miliband was partly right but can’t do anything about it

Yesterday afternoon, I was idly muttering about Ed Miliband’s speech with one of my colleagues who I think wouldn’t be averse to being described as a proper Newish Labour type. We were discussing the changes to benefits and so on … Continue reading

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Is Miliband’s “British Promise” one to watch?

Ed Miliband spoke at the weekend to the Progress conference. It hardly won critical acclaim: a New Statesman blog called it the ‘worst speech he has ever delivered’ and John Rentoul wasn’t impressed by its ‘cliché-wridden verbiage.’ The speech did have one … Continue reading

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A Coherent Approach Is Necessary To Tackle Poverty Of Aspiration

The Prince’s Trust has published a fascinating piece of research today about youth poverty and what they are calling the “aspiration gap.”  They surveyed 2,311, 16-24 year olds.  377 of who were in poor backgrounds.  The findings are pretty stark.  … Continue reading

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Ed Miliband’s Conservative idea: Why the living wage makes sense

Lush (that very very over-scented shop for bath things) has become the first retailer to commit to paying a living wage. As a company that prides itself on its ethical stance, this is a good thing. It reminded me about … Continue reading

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