• Employment,Labour Party,Politics

  Hiring hiatus means Labour’s ‘living standards’ mission is failing

  By Mike Sivier|Last Updated: April 15, 2025|
• Brexit,Labour Party,Living Standards,Public services

  Is this how Labour can realistically tackle Reform UK?

  By Mike Sivier|Last Updated: February 5, 2025|
• Business,Employment,Poverty,Wages

  Here’s why you think you’re getting richer when in fact you’re getting poorer

  By Mike Sivier|Last Updated: January 17, 2024|
• Economy,Fascism,Housing,Inflation,Interest rate,Living Standards

  Politicians are hell-bent on pushing us to fascism. Let Gary explain how to stop it.

  By Mike Sivier|Last Updated: January 2, 2024|
• Benefits,Conservative Party,Politics

  End of benefit freeze won’t end choice between heating and eating because increases will be too low

  By Mike Sivier|Last Updated: February 13, 2020|
• Conservative Party,Politics

  Tories will be punished for their ‘lost decade’ and the ‘feel-bad factor’ they created

  By Mike Sivier|Last Updated: November 28, 2016|
• Austerity,Conservative Party,Economy,Election campaign,Employment,Liberal Democrats,Neoliberalism,Politics,Tax,UK

  Osborne’s last budget says more in its omissions than in its announcements

  By Mike Sivier|Last Updated: March 19, 2015|
• Employment,Zero hours contracts

  Huge increase in zero-hour contracts – in a ‘booming’ economy?

  By Mike Sivier|Last Updated: February 25, 2015|
• Austerity,Business,Conservative Party,Cost of living,Economy,Employment,Housing,Liberal Democrats,Neoliberalism,Politics,UK,Wages

  Economy slowing as growth is revised down: So what?

  By Mike Sivier|Last Updated: December 23, 2014|
• Cost of living,Neoliberalism,People,Politics,UK

  Households would be better off in a more equal economy – Inequality Briefing

  By Mike Sivier|Last Updated: July 17, 2024|