Antony Mason looks at the laboured progress of the EU over the Common Fisheries Policy, which seems unable to address with sufficient urgency the threat to fish stocks and our fishing industry
Category: Blog
ITUC poll: Outlook Not So Good
Billy Harding looks at the recently published ITUC poll which shows that, of the 13 countries investigated, only citizens in Indonesia, Brazil, and Bulgaria believe that future generations will be better off than today’s generation. Some 66 per cent of respondents from all countries believe that future generations will be worse off.
Will today’s young people ever be able to own their own homes?
David Kingman analyses the gloomy findings from the forecast of the UK housing market recently released by PricewaterhouseCoopers
London 2012: what will be the real legacy of hosting the Olympics?
David Kingman ponders what kind of “legacy” the people responsible for London’s successful Olympic Games will actually be able to achieve
Student Loan Agreements – what are you getting yourself into?
Billy Harding, a volunteer at IF and second year student at Exeter University, has been digging into the contract which new students will be signing up to for the loans – and doesn’t much like what he sees
“Plan B for Youth”: a real plan for action
Antony Mason sees much to commend in “Plan B for Youth”, launched by the think-tank Compass on 17 July
Marine Garbage Pollution: an International Problem
Sarah Cruz Lima, of the Institute for Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University, describes the imperfect efforts to curb dumping at sea, a classic case of short-term expediency with clear long-term – hence intergenerational – implications
US city of Stockton bankrupted by healthcare and pension costs
David Kingman explains how overgenerous pension and healthcare commitments to former state workers have played a major role in pushing Stockton, California, over the precipice of bankruptcy
Good news: jobless total falls
Somewhat against expectations, today’s unemployment figures have moved in the right direction. For all generations? Antony Mason investigates
Loans for Higher Education: the dodgy dossier
Antony Mason argues that, even if they can’t do anything about being stuck with higher debts, university students still have cause for complaint about the terms which they are forced to agree to