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Why MigrationWatch are wrong: a plea for a more robust debate on immigration

By Sarah Mulley
New Statesman - 19 August 2010
If MigrationWatch want to be taken seriously, they need to go back to their statistics textbooks. Here, for the record, are three important methodological reasons why MigrationWatch's claims don't stand up.

Legal aid is in tatters and only long-term thinking can mend it

By Alice Sachrajda
Guardian - 19 August 2010
The legal aid budget for asylum seekers is bloated because poor and rushed decisions are made early on - only radical reform, not cuts, can trim the bill.

Welfare spending – time to reassess universal benefits?

By Kayte Lawton and Kate Stanley
www.ippr.org - 18 August 2010
In the face of oncoming austerity, no public spending can simply continue without scrutiny. This must include spending on welfare benefits.

Migration: wrong policy, right outcome

By Tim Finch
OpenDemocracy - 13 August 2010
Imposing a cap on immigration is not the way to reduce the number of migrants: it is neither sensible nor necessary, says Tim Finch.

Interns Should Be Given A Fair Wage

By Kayte Lawton
eGov Monitor - 10 August 2010
Asking people to work for free for profit-making companies is illegal, and creates challenges to equality and social mobility.

Do the right thing?

By Matthew Lockwood
Reuters AlertNet - 03 August 2010
Michael Sandel is currently hot property on the centre left in the UK, saying that politics should be built on moral arguments. What does this approach say about the politics of climate change? 

Immigration must be a bigger part of the reform agenda

By Tim Finch
Guardian - Comment is Free - 02 August 2010
Current immigration policy smacks of a quick fix. We need a much more comprehensive vision for the next 20 or 30 years, says Tim Finch.

Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reform deserves support

By Kate Stanley
Guardian - Comment is Free - 30 July 2010
IDS sets too much store by work incentives as a cure for unemployment, but this is still a bold and necessary initiative, says ippr's deputy director Kate Stanley

Lawfair

By Andy Hull
Open Democracy - 30 July 2010
Andy Hull suggests the future governance of intelligence is a matter of both public interest and national importance.

Immigration cap differences of Cameron and Cable laid bare on trip to India

By Sarah Mulley
Left Foot Forward - 28 July 2010
The way to deal with public concerns about migration is to change the political narrative and tackle a wider set of issues including the labour market, housing, and changing communities – the immigration cap does neither.

Having a better immigration system also means returning immigrants

By Tim Finch
Liberal Conspiracy - 28 July 2010

You know government policy is in trouble when on the same day it is attacked by both a High Court judge and its own independent inspector. That is what happened yesterday [27 July] to the Home Office over important aspects of their returns policy...

What's the Big Idea?

By Ed Cox
LocalGov.co.uk - 27 July 2010
There is something about the hopeful promise of collective action that every council should nurture, says Ed Cox.

Equity begins at home

By David Nash
China Dialogue - 22 July 2010
Politicians must put fairness at the heart of domestic – not just global – climate strategies, argues David Nash, or the poor will end up bearing a disproportionate burden.

ippr visits Rwanda

By Tess Lanning
ippr.org - 12 July 2010
Tess Lanning reports on the lessons learnt from an ippr training visit to Rwanda’s first think tank, the Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR), where she observed many concerns common to ippr – practical, political and ethical.

Brits abroad: How national pride can help us achieve progressive international goals

By Tim Finch
Labour List - 08 July 2010
In a new report called Global Brit: Making the Most of the British Diaspora, ippr shows that British emigrants are as confused as the rest of us seem to be about what it means to be British in the 21st century

The axe factor

By Rick Muir
Progress - 08 July 2010
Can there be real public involvement in deciding where the cuts will fall? Rick Muir looks at the chancellor's claims of bringing voters into making spending decisions and how he might go about it

The balance sheet

By Lisa Harker and Carey Oppenheim
Public Finance - 08 July 2010
Things really did get better under New Labour. But now we need a new settlement for progressive politics and public service reform, say Lisa Harker and Carey Oppenheim

The English left needs to reclaim English identity

By Rick Muir
Labour List  - 08 July 2010
The English left needs to reclaim English identity – otherwise there is a dangerous vacuum in which all sorts of resentments over devolution and immigration get channelled through the prism of a reactionary and belligerent Englishness.

Labour's battle for middle England

By Michael Kenny, associate fellow
Guardian - Comment is Free - 04 July 2010
In order to recover, Labour needs to engage with national renewal in England, just as it tried to do in Scotland and Wales

ippr statement on George Osborne’s Emergency Budget

By Carey Oppenheim, Co-Director and Tony Dolphin, Senior Economist
www.ippr.org - 22 June 2010
In ippr’s view the Chancellor's budget statement needed to be much more progressive than it was to offset the impact of the deep cuts in public services that are round the corner.

New York welfare lesson

By Dalia Ben-Galim
Public Finance blog - 18 June 2010
The question of how to create employment and support services that respond to citizens’ needs has never been easy. In the current context of spending cuts and increasing levels of unemployment, it becomes even more critical.

Why raising taxes is the only progressive way to tackle the deficit

By Tony Dolphin
Liberal Conspiracy - 18 June 2010
This government wants to be seen as progressive. A key test of how progressive it really is will be where the impact of deficit reduction falls.

Migration: development on the move

By Alex Glennie
openDemocracy - 14 June 2010
Migration is an unstoppable fact of life in the 21st century and should be based on a sound understanding of migrants’ motivations and real life experiences.

Social justice must remain central to state policy

By Lisa Harker and Carey Oppenheim 
Guardian Society - 08 June 2010
The argument for placing social justice at the heart of government policy has been won, but now must be led by values rather than 'what works'.

More misleading claims about migration

By Sarah Mulley
leftfootforward.org - 03 June 2010
Migration Watch are plain wrong to suggest that the introduction of the Points-Based System for managing immigration has led to an increase in the number of economic migrants entering the UK.

Mixed Feelings

By
China Dialogue - 02 June 2010

Yesterday, Thomas Hale and Scott Moore called for a “coalition of the willing” to drive emissions cuts as an alternative to the UN process. As climate talks continue in Bonn, a roundtable of experts including ippr's Andrew Pendleton responds.