Posts by Graeme Cooke
Graeme writes on welfare and labour market policy. He is head of the Open Left project at Demos and was expert advisor to the Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions between 2008 and 2009.
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Most read this week
- The DWP’s ‘scrounger’ rhetoric is causing real harm
- The government’s drug policy favours dogma over harm reduction
- Climate change sceptics and rural romantics – the Tories are a shambles on renewable energy
- Polls apart? The news for the SNP might not be as good as it looks
- Don’t believe the spin – the health reforms are Cameron’s just as much as Lansley’s
Best of the web
Polling Observatory #11: When is a tie not a tie? – Rob Ford, Will Jennings and Mark Pickup, Ballots and Bullets
UKIP MEP makes Euro Parliament speech on booze and drugs cocktail – Political Scrapbook
Desperately Seeking Dalston: A Field Study – Frank Jacobs, Strange Maps
Daniel Radcliffe ends support for Liberal Democrats – Ben Quinn, The Guardian
Benefits: In Defence of the Fake Disabled – Jason Reed, Huffington Post UK
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