Equality
Facts Evasion
The Prime Minister has changed his line. In his conference speech last month he said:
The rich will pay a greater share of tax in every year of this Parliament than in any one of the 13 years under Labour.
(I examined the claim here and here.) At Prime Minister’s Questions today he said:
The richest in our [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 28 November 2012 at 6:41 pm
The “Pony Politics” of the Living Wage
Obviously the Living Wage is a lovely idea. And so is the offer of a free iPhone 5 for anyone who wants one. Hopi Sen has coined the term “pony polling” for the sort of opinion survey that asks, “Would you like a pony and have someone else pay for it?”
Well, the Living Wage is [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 5 November 2012 at 1:18 pm
The broadest shoulders, the greatest burden?
The Treasury has finally supplied an answer to my question about the basis on which the Prime Minister and the Chancellor claimed in their party conference speeches that the rich are paying a greater share of tax than under the previous government. I have written about it in The Independent on Sunday today.
George Osborne, in [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 28 October 2012 at 9:55 am
The Rich Don’t Get Richer
I once wrote a book called The Rich Get Richer, which was about a period, the 1980s, when it was true.
Since then, I have spent much of my time trying to point out that, despite what everybody knows, the degree of inequality in Britain has stayed about the same since the sharp increase during the [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 22 October 2012 at 9:55 pm
Lies about transgender people (and how to spot a rubbish journalist)
I see so much rot written about trans people that I just don’t know anymore. Does anyone – from legal correspondents to sports editors – really know what they’re writing about?
By Paris Lees | Notebook | Friday, 31 August 2012 at 6:00 pm
Stop and search: An open letter to Theresa May MP, Nick Herbert MP and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe
Our work with young people, and in-depth research into last summer’s riots, shows that stop-and-search was a key causal factor in the violence that swept the country.
By Mediorite | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 2:00 am
How about equality for all in our education system?
Mr Gove and the Government are developing academies and free schools to give more ‘choice to parents’. Ironically, this will give parents, as a whole, less choice. It will lead to greater exclusion of troubled children, more forced segregation of disabled children, more hate crime and will create a more unequal society.
By Richard Reiser | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 2 August 2012 at 8:00 am
If you judged the world on advertising, you wouldn’t know disabled people exist
A Spanish designer, Dolores Cortes, has chosen a baby girl with Downs Syndrome, Valentina Guerrero, to appear on the cover of her US catalogue. It’s a bold move guaranteed to generate a little extra publicity and I welcome her decision; personally I find the image refreshing, it makes me smile to see a cute, happy young child regardless of her disability and it’s constructive to stir up the conversation about disability in advertising again.
By Shannon Murray | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 11:16 am
The Voice newspaper’s Olympics snub raises important questions around diversity
This week The Voice, Britain’s biggest and longest running Black newspaper, became the subject of headlines itself after their request to access the Olympic Games was denied.
By Anna Nathanson | Notebook, Olympics, Opinion | Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 11:27 am
Why oh why didn’t we see it coming?
I shouldn’t bother, but it annoys me. There is a throw-away line in the excellent review by John Lloyd (pictured) of the current state of progressive politics:
At gloomy meetings of UK and US progressives in Oxford and London earlier this month, the former Blair adviser Roger Liddle admitted that British Labourites hadn’t anticipated the huge growth [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 10 July 2012 at 11:11 am
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