Should we defend the middle class welfare state?
Our guest writer is Ben Baumberg, researcher at the LSE and co-editor of the collaborative blog Inequalities Over the last fortnight it has become clear: the coalition is planning a wholesale assault...
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The real threat to living standards for those on low to middle incomes
James Plunkett is a Research and Policy Analyst at the Resolution Foundation Ed Miliband’s attempt on Friday’s Today programme to define the ‘squeezed middle’ has made some people question the point of...
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Considering income alone is never enough when looking at living standards
James Plunkett is a Research and Policy Analyst at the Resolution Foundation The Independent reports today that ‘middle England’ will be ‘hit hardest’ by upcoming changes to taxes and benefits....
View ArticleLabour should never take ethnic minority voters for granted
If the Tories can shake off the nasty party image, there is ample evidence the party can build on the 16 per cent ethnic minority support they had in 2010, writes James Bloodworth “The rising number of...
View ArticleComment: Labour has gone from being the party of hope to the party of envy
‘If you don’t have anything positive to say, then don’t say anything at all’ is a saying my mother used regularly during my childhood . Just as it worked to reign in my more destructive tendencies...
View ArticleReading George Orwell can help close Labour’s class divide
There’s an emerging consensus that the Labour party’s longstanding coalition between workers and middle class intellectuals is breaking down. Oxford professor Bo Rothstein says the ‘alliance between...
View ArticleThe middle-class media overstates working-class social conservatism
The pen and its wielder are the architects of society. Unforunately though, more often than not, a middle-class media elite that constructs and misconstrues societies outlook. In their eyes, the...
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