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‘Failing to the point of collapse’: Phillip Blond on the crisis in health and care
26th May 2016
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Roy Greenslade on ‘The Mission of Media in an Age of Monopoly’
26th May 2016
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BBC Radio 4 Today Programme: Dr Justin Schlosberg on our new media essay
26th May 2016
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Press Release: The Mission of Media in an Age of Monopoly
26th May 2016
Press Releases
GOOGLE TAX NEEDED TO MAKE SOCIAL MEDIA PAY FOR NEWS
Strict embargo: 00:01 26th May 2016
Google should be made to pay for the news it takes from other media outlets and promotes on its own website, independent think tank ResPublica has found.
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Whitehall’s attitude to St Ives’ poll shows little regard for localism
25th May 2016
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Let’s cut funding for wasteful arts degrees to support apprenticeships properly
23rd May 2016
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Edward Douglas on the case for remain
23rd May 2016
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The below is an English translation of an article which appeared in Naftemporiki – Greece’s biggest financial newspaper
The most likely outcome on 23 June – Britain’s first vote on its EU membership since 1975 – is a vote for the status quo.
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.@DamianCollins Employer organisations have a responsibility to take on young people, to train them, and give them… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@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…
.@CSkidmoreUK There’s a massive under-investment of companies in their workers’ human capital. Within the tax syst… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins Sure, you could have a Charter of Standards, but will companies enforce it? Having a minimum amoun… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@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…
.@DamianCollins Is that right? We need to look at this in the context of workers’ rights *and* also the way in whi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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…