Read my posts about social mobility, a topic often popular with politicians but where their comments often betray a basic misunderstanding of how the public view the phrase.
A quick update to my previous post about the campaign, backed by Nick Clegg, to get PR agencies to pay interns at least the national minimum wage: Thirty Four Agencies Sign Up To PRCA Pledge To Pay Minimum Wage To Interns… But of the ten biggest UK agencies – according to the PRWeek Top 150 … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #12 brings you analysis and the full text of Nick Clegg’s speech to Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham. … Read the full post »
PR Week reports very welcome news from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg regarding the problems caused by unpaid internships. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat conference has been a lot about what won’t happen or isn’t the case. Much less so about what the party is for. … Read the full post »
More economically competent than Labour, fairer than the Conservatives – that’s the Lib Dem message. … Read the full post »
Conservative MP Jesse Norman’s book, The Big Society, is certainly not uncontroversial, but it makes a sufficiently strong and clear case for a ‘Big Society’ approach to governing to have received favourable comments from across the political spectrum. … Read the full post »
From after the First World War until around 1970 the use of upper class, middle class and working class in books mirrored each other closely. … Read the full post »
As part of the government’s launch of its social mobility strategy this week, Nick Clegg and Iain Duncan Smith co-authored a piece for the Daily Telegraph: Labour couldn’t make up its mind on what goal it was chasing. Social exclusion? Income poverty? Inequality? Social mobility? Lacking a clear agenda, it fixated on just one measure … Read the full post »
The government’s social mobility strategy contains wording that looks like a compromise between different Liberal Democrat and Conservative influences. … Read the full post »
In amongst the details of this week’s government announcements on social mobility was a commitment to extend name-blank employment. … Read the full post »