Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

The Institute for Public Policy Research is a leftwing thinktank based in London in the UK. It was founded in 1988 and is an independent registered charity. IPPR has offices in Newcastle, Manchester, and Edinburgh.   This is what they have to sa...

The European Youth Forum has lodged a complaint against the Belgian government, seeking to ban unpaid internships. From the Executive Summary. Young people entering the job market are in a precarious economic position. Across Europe, and in Belg...

A former homeless man is calling for more regular counts of rough sleepers in Worcester after an ‘unprecedented rise’ in the number of cases. Mr Suggs is planning a vigil to mark anniversary of rough sleeper Cardon Banfield's death....

The Government has been criticised for leaving pensioners in a state of “total confusion” about why some are not receiving the full state pension. The new flat rate state pension, which is £159.55 a week for this tax year, was intro...

London and South East England are set to account for 40 percent of the economy by the end of the next parliament’s mandate, said Britain’s trade union body TUC in a written statement. That’s up from 37.5 percent in 2015 and 33 perce...

Street League is excited to announce a new partnership with Laurent Koscielny, the Arsenal Captain and Premier League defender. In February 2017, Koscielny signed up to become an Epic Ambassador for Street League, the UK charity which uses the power...

Following reports that increasing numbers of ex-service personnel are forced to rely on foodbanks - SNP candidate Dr Eilidh Whitford has condemned the Tory government’s failed austerity agenda. A former Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders privat...

Next week on 17th & 18th May the ExCeL, London will host Europe's largest, most exciting business event, The Business Show. This is a show like no other say the organisers, featuring an incredible speaker line-up, 170 mastercl...

Meet Fred, the two foot tall cloth puppet that fights prejudice every day. He just wants to be a regular guy, part of the real world, to get a job and meet a girl, but when threatened with losing his PLA (Puppetry Living Allowance), Fred’s life...

Sir Bob Russell (Lib Dem) is back in the fray as prospective candidate for Colchester. Bob was first elected at the United Kingdom general election, 1997 and won subsequent re-election in 2001, 2005 and 2010; he was defeated in United...