The pain of unpaid internships

Claire Lamont urges young people who risk being exploited by unpaid internships to use the IF film competition to speak out

Winter Fuel Payments: opposition mounts

In an age of austerity, handing out Winter Fuel Allowance payments to wealthy over-60s is beginning to look increasingly indefensible

How will future generations defend themselves?

David Kingman explores the intergenerational dimensions of defence spending, asking whether we can ever know what future generations would want us to do

Talking about my generation

Mired in debt and a stagnant economy, Melissa Jane Knight tells us how the world looks if you’re in your late twenties – and urges all 16–30 year olds to put the case forward by entering the IF Film Competition

How should we measure child poverty?

David Kingman explores the recent suggestion from the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith that the government should find a more comprehensive way of measuring child poverty

Young, Gifted and Broke? Our Film Competition

Liz Emerson explains why IF has launched the IF Film Competition, and raises some of the issues that should provoke young film makers to take up the challenge