On the 15th of February the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released its latest figures for the labour market and with it a couple of Guardian articles spreading doom and gloom over the state of the labour market. What do the statistics say and do we really need all the doom and gloom? A mini foreword; all the [...]
Student activists first took to the streets to defend their futures over a year ago. They were met with batons, kettles and a mounted charge. Now the latest Whitehall rhetoric is demanding a ‘crusade’ against the staggering rates of youth unemployment. David Miliband has a lot to say in the Sunday Mirror. You know, the [...]
All hail average Joe: Fred Goodwin. Once a renown and respected Banker privileged with a Knighthood granted by none other than our very own Her Majesty, now coined as the man that plunged the UK into her worst recession since World War 2. Portrayed as the Bond Baddie, the fiasco of Fred Goodwin can successfully [...]
The War on Drugs. Once a battle agreed upon by almost all of society as a battle worth fighting, now perceived as a retreating offensive. Business Tsar and Global Drug Commissioner Sir Richard Branson is now among the few government advisor’s whom have controversially spoken against the governmental status-qua of a hard-line policy against the [...]
Controversial plans to cut disability benefits faced a setback yesterday, as the government lost all three votes in the House of Lords. The new system of employment support allowance (ESA), which replaced the old incapacity benefit, has come under fire from activists who argue that it is wrong that disabled people should be made to [...]
What would you do for a salary of 66k? For most young people it’s a salary they can only dream about. Six jobs promising this salary have just been advertised on the Labour party website. The six posts are for executive directors covering every facet of the party, an attempt at a complete revolution in [...]
A record breaking recession, and a record breaking youthful depression. Two things that aren’t only on Cameron’s conscience entering 2012, but Britain’s. From the ambitious Youth Contract to the perplexing Positive For Youth Strategy: some of the many recent Whitehall published papers that aim to tackle one of Britain’s largest problems: The Youthful depression. Amidst these [...]
Last week, a group of British National Party activists demonstrated outside a Sheffield Primary School in protest against a consultation being held between governors and the head teacher about the provision of Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) to children under 13. After delivering letters to the city council and the head of governors, BNP members [...]
This week has seen unemployment reach new heights, with youth unemployment of approximately 1.02 million raising particular concern across the country. This is bad news for the recovery of the economy, but it also undermines the tough rhetoric behind the government’s welfare reform policy. The ‘benefits culture’ of the long term unemployed is deeply unpopular, [...]
Catch21 went to meet Kate Green MP for Stretford & Urmston to ask her “Do you think the vote should be given to people at 16?” Kate is a great believer in giving the vote to people at 16 but believes the only way decision makers will listen is to get 100K+ votes on an [...]
By now we’ve all heard about the workfare scandal: as part of a reform of jobless benefits, tens of thousands of job seekers have been forced to work for organisations (non- and for-profit) for free or lose their Job Seekers Allowance. The backlash has been intense, to put it mildly. While the scheme does have [...]
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