Good Society
Why the government should be spending more on public spaces
Cuts to local authority budgets mean children are increasingly unable to enjoy green spaces in cities
spending cuts
Labour warns that another Tory government would threaten 1,000 Sure Start centres
The beleaguered service cannot take another four years of closures and reduced opening hours
IFS finds that the most deprived areas have seen the deepest cuts
Planned spending cuts for 2015-16 are likely to return to the same areas to squeeze them further
Boris’ pledge to tackle rough sleeping is a failure which gets worse each year
The mayor needs to ask himself whether yearly rises in the number of people living on the streets is a legacy he is happy to continue ignoring.
We need an honest debate about debt reduction. But don’t expect it from George Osborne
The reduction of the national debt should be achieved over a generation - not a handful of years.
Tax havens are syphoning money away from our public services
We need to show our anger about greedy corporates depriving our public services of investment.