Unemployment: the pain is shared
Today’s unemployment figures make gloomy reading, with total unemployment up to 2.64 million, a 17-year high.
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Olympic ticket allocation: is there an alternative?
The air is loud with denunciations of the way in which tickets for next year’s London Olympics are being allocated.
Oxbridge in the doghouse again
The Prime Minister and his deputy have got themselves into deep water by repeating claims about the admissions policy at Oxford University.
Do Scottish universities exclude the poor?
Scotland should do more to encourage people from poorer backgrounds to go to university, according to the National Union of Students Scotland (NUSS).
Racist or meritocratic? Oxbridge maligned
David Lammy MP claims to have extracted some interesting information about the admission of black students to Oxford and Cambridge through freedom of information requests.
As bad as Victorian times?
The Conservative Party’s election manifesto asserts: “The difference in male life expectancy between the richest and poorest areas in our country is now greater than during Victori
Mixed messages on inequality
In the midst of an election campaign it’s inevitable that various long-term statistics will be coming out of the woodwork.
Not in our stars but in ourselves
Why are poorer people unhealthier? A commonsense response would be because they behave more unhealthily.
The gap between statistics and discrimination
The gap in pay between men and women has narrowed, according to the latest data from the ONS, no matter how you measure it.
