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Community energy sector faces financial barriers
30th April 2014
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ResPublica’s latest report on community energy is featured in Co-operative Energy News.
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The Liberal Reconfiguration: Thoughts inspired by the One Nation Labour conference
24th April 2014
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Liberal Democrat Voice on ResPublica Director Phillip Blond.
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Faith, hope and Cameron’s dog-whistle Christianity
18th April 2014
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Another ResPublica report is featured in the Guardian.
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Renewable energy could cut energy bills – but the government must help
15th April 2014
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ResPublica’s green paper, ‘The Community Renewables Economy’ is featured in The Guardian.
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Bureaucratic Consequences: Chris Grayling’s Book Ban and the Failings of Policy
13th April 2014
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ResPublica’s Rosie Olliver discusses the consequences behind Chris Grayling’s “book ban” in the Huffington Post.
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ResPublica’s Phillip Blond speaks to LBC’s Iain Dale about the Maria Miller affair
10th April 2014
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Promoting cooperatives would benefit Scotland
8th April 2014
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David Fagleman discusses the role that cooperatives and mutual structures can play in shaping Scotland’s future in SCVO.
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Crackdown on payday loans may boost black market, warns MP
4th April 2014
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ResPublica’s roundtable discussion on payday lending and financial exclusion is featured in City AM.
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Liverpool Mayor Backs ’20 Miles More’ HS2 Campaign
3rd April 2014
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The ’20 Miles More’ campaign to extend the HS2 line to Liverpool has been supported by the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson.
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.@CSkidmoreUK Has the UK relied too heavily on migrant workers? I don’t think we’ll reach an equilibrium point wh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@abicadams: How important will green employment be? Good question. There’s been a lot of work done here by the OEC… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Two interesting points here. First, the wider wellbeing issue. Work does not feel fulfilling for many peo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins Q: Is there a danger of commoditising the workforce? Yes, and the gig economy is an extreme exampl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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.@DamianCollins In the gig economy, your success in getting a job is dictated by an algorithm. That doesn’t feel l… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins There’s no consistency in how the gig economy is regulated. We need to set common standards. Howev… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Taking part this morning in @res_publica @jrf_uk event on tackling unemployment and poverty- focusing my contribution on h…
.@DamianCollins In the gig economy, people are committed to a lot of waiting-around time. And there are fewer in-w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins Not all people who work in the gig economy work exclusively within it. This is, however, a growing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Every mind has the opportunity to push itself further, whether that’s in HE or FE or employment-base… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Arguments about student finance do not deal with the perceptions and realities of debt. We need to u… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK For example, when you look at the Maintenance Loan, that sum is deducted from Universal Credit. Here… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK One solution: a leveling-up education fund that is micro-targeted. We also need to look at structura… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK 1 in 9 working adults have no qualifications, but this varies from constituency to constituency. We… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Furlough provides us with a moment to take stock and focus on the training of workers. We have a str… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes The government has committed to an Employment Bill. That’s a welcome development. However, we should have… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes What sort of labour market do we want to rebuild? 1/8 workers are in poverty. That’s not good enough. Com… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Insecure work lowers morale, while businesses invest less in the skills of their transient staff. UK busi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Rising employment rates should generate falling poverty. But as the employment rate reached a record 76%… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Work itself is becoming less effective in providing adequate earnings, even as the National Living Wage w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Half of care workers are earning less than the living wage. And if you were on a zero-hours contract, yo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@BenChu_: Do you have a view about the low-income insecure workforce?
@abicadams 30-35% of new jobs are being a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…