Industrial Strategy for the Public Good
Since the Crash in 07/08, industrial strategy in the UK has seen a renaissance as a legitimate area for policy activity. It had been out of fashion since the 70s …
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Half Of 20-Somethings Say Money Pressures Impact Their Mental Health
The joint HuffPost UK-BBC Radio 5 Live poll found 30% of people in their 20s have no savings at all. The majority of young people in their 20s say money …
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Climate crisis: flooding threat ‘may force UK towns to be abandoned’
Environment Agency calls for urgent action to protect country from river and coastal floods Entire communities might need to be moved away from coasts and rivers as the UK takes …
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How a Facebook group is using the Wetherspoons app to feed homeless people
Wetherspoons has an app that allows customers to skip queuing at the bar to order food and drink. It also means you can play pranks, sending orders of peas or …
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Mark Carney: Put your money where your mouth is! Unleash green investment now!
On Thursday 2nd May, Positive Money staff, supporters and members of the grassroots divestment group Fossil Free London, gathered outside the Bank of England to get our voices heard on …
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CTRLShift 2 – “An Emergency Summit for Change”, kicking off in Stoke-on-Trent this week
Part of our commitment in A/UK is be involved in “networking the networks” – making many connections with like-minded groups and individuals, either convening ourselves or strengthening the convening of …
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Why ‘Net Zero Emissions by 2050’ needs a Green New Deal
I remember the days when months would go by without anything much happening about climate change at all. Thinkers and doers called for stuff, politicians occasionally did a few things, …
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Universal Credit roll-out needs to be stopped and poverty addressed, say MPs
MPs have demanded the Universal Credit roll-out is frozen until the government addresses the poverty they say it has fueled. Currently, there are just under 64,000 households receiving Universal Credit …
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UK parliament becomes first in the world to pass motion declaring a ‘climate emergency’
The UK parliament has become the first in the world to pass a motion declaring an “environment and climate emergency”, as pressure on the government to adopt a net zero …
Read MoreUntil politicians take radical steps to level the playing field, social mobility will keep getting worse
According to the Social Mobility Commission’s ‘State of the Nation’ report, inequality is now entrenched in Britain. It requires urgent government action to tackle one of the great ‘burning injustices’, …
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