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  • 19 Sep 2012
    Part-time work and self-employment replacing full-time jobs for women

    According to the TUC's latest economic report, many of the recent increases in women's employment levels are in self-employment and involuntary part-time work.

  • 22 Aug 2012
    Tory 'rising stars' and the realities of working lives

    Walk wide of people with a book to sell. This may be interpreted as an unwise remark coming from a writer, but the recent comments from five 'rising stars' of the Tory party who are promoting their book 'Britannia in Chains' is a reminder that literary self-interest can be as ugly as any other variety.

  • 8 Mar 2012
    Chloe Smith and the 'two nations'

    “Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.” These words from Disraeli's 1845 novel 'Sybil' could have been written for Norwich MP Chloe Smith.