Some of the spending review’s big losers haven’t realised it yet

The media may be preoccupied with cuts to child and housing benefits — but all hell will break loose once tax credit cuts bite.

The Coming Crunch

These are interesting times here at the Resolution Foundation. We’re expanding our team, starting new projects and working in different ways to achieve practical solutions. I hope you’ll keep returning to our new and improved website over the next few weeks and months to follow what we have to…

A new generational compact

One of the best books written by a politician in recent years is David Willetts’ The Pinch. In it Willetts documents, with great clarity and rich empirical evidence, how the baby boomer generation has been pinching too big a share of the nation’s wealth, enjoying rising house…

After the recession, the real pain begins

Fuel price protests rattled Blair. The 10p tax row dogged Brown. Is David Cameron ready for the storm that his huge raid on our personal finances is about to unleash?

The ‘squeezed middle’ is a real problem

Whatever the terminology, politicians cannot afford to overlook a group that feels justified anxiety about its standard of living.

The best political phrases grow broad roots, entering the language of all political parties. Today it’s…

It’s rising prices as much as spending cuts that will give the Coalition a political headache

It’s rising prices as much as spending cuts that will give the Coalition a political headache.