This week I gave a talk to an online conference which had asked me to speak about the future of … Continue reading “The future of post-pandemic work”

Oxfam has published its annual analysis of world wealth inequality, “The Inequality Virus”, this time with added Covid. Though its … Continue reading “Closing down markets will do nothing to diminish poverty”

Millions of jobs will be seen to have been lost and thousands of businesses destroyed once furloughing is ended. In preparing … Continue reading “How the labour market can recover from the Covid-19 crisis”

A lot has been happening on the minimum wage front recently. This week the Living Wage Foundation published its new … Continue reading “The new Living Wage consensus is still problematic”

Many of today’s Conservatives have a taste for bans and mandates rivalling that of politicians on the Left, as we … Continue reading “Compulsion is not the answer to the recent fall in vaccination uptake”

It is ironic that the Office for National Statistics published figures showing unemployment at a 45-year low and earnings growth … Continue reading “The dangers of a more rigid labour market”

It appears that Bury FC has finally been expelled from the English Football League (EFL) because of its inability to … Continue reading “Too old to fail? No.”

The news that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned adverts for Philadelphia cheese and Volkswagen eGolf cars looks like … Continue reading “The Advertising Standards Authority has no business policing gender stereotypes”

It looks as though we will have ethnic pay monitoring before long. It is likely that the requirement will, as … Continue reading “Ethnic pay monitoring will lead to misleading comparisons”