Tag Archives: social mobility

Let my people come: Gordon Brown, New Labour and the non-mystery of immigration

By , Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 5 Comments

Immigration’s sorted then. Phew, that was easy. “Just say ‘No’” was the effective Tory policy at the election (though following yesterday’s government equivocations on “capping”, “Just say ‘Maybe’” is more accurate). Read more »

To reform is not to wreck: Reforms we can all agree on

By , Saturday, 28 August 2010, 9 Comments

Although I come from a Welsh family as politically tribal as the Borgias – with a preference on balance for merely verbal lashings over outright murder – I am capable of lifting myself above party conflicts to take a more elevated view. And I’m pompous with it. Read more »

Reading is the best regeneration policy

By , Sunday, 15 August 2010, 5 Comments

Right you lot: be quiet at the back. Let me clarify. Before some dull object asks me whether the above heading means that Reading is better than Swindon I mean ‘reading’ with a small r. Bill Clinton famously said ‘the best welfare policy is a job’. And so it is. My proposition today is this: reading is the best regeneration policy. Read more »

Tough lessons in Welsh poverty

By , Tuesday, 4 May 2010, Be the first to comment

Ynysybwl Valley, Glyncoch. Areopagus photo

Luckily the Great Regenerator in the Sky looks after me and source material came through my post today. The spring edition of Agenda, the excellent journal of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, has a special section on child poverty. It makes grim and inspirational reading.

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