Cost-cutting could wreck the things that actually make the programme work.

Low pay currently forces cleaners to go without meals or come to work sick.

We need to level the election playing field.

The government claims to be measuring outcomes, but doesn't know where poor children have ended up.

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t great.

There are compelling arguments to over-ride private property rights in a very few cases.

More rentals are warm and dry than before. But a hard core of slumlords remain.

Lifting children out of poverty would have a significant impact on reducing maltreatment.

Egalitarianism had become tarnished. But more open didn’t have to mean more unequal.

A political consensus on infrastructure is the perfect candidate for statesmanship.