None of us know exactly what’s happening at the heart of the coalition. We like to take pot-shots at the Lib Dems for propping up George Osborne’s relentless drive towards the establishment of ‘free’ markets in every corner of civil society. And there is no doubt that, for many in the Orange Book crowd, the …

For young people this budget has left one big question hanging in the air: how will we find work? This year, both Labour and the Conservatives turned to the levers of Whitehall for their answers to mass youth unemployment – Labour with its jobs guarantee, and the Conservatives with their Work Programme. Now George Osborne …

These days most of us work in offices, and we aren’t happy about it. Hunched over our computers, we spend almost the entire day sitting down – apart from the infamous bout of exercise in the gym that, in reality, only about three per cent of us do. Most of our work consists of emails, …

Membership is what Labour is all about – and yet our party is shrinking. We may have experienced a spike in new registrations since the last election, but the long-term trend is clear: people no longer feel that Labour is where they belong. People haven’t stopped needing that sense of belonging. They simply don’t see …