Nick Clegg’s article in today’s Guardian is an important moment in the coalition government’s abandonment of the goal of reducing inequality. The article addresses other important issues – party politics, the scope for progressive governments in an age of austerity – but I want to concentrate on what he says about inequality.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has seen a huge increase in European countries seeking technical assistance in tackling health inequality as the economic crisis continues to exacerbate the social equity gap.

Vanessa Neumann, a self-confessed product of Venezuela's maligned "oligarchy", writes to The Guardian letters with some facts to prove Chavez is the dictatorial monster The Guardian seems determined to portray him as. In the comments section, though, it would appear Ms Neumann (and The Guardian) have been rumbled.... I live in the US and read The Guardian because I cannot stand the biased US ...

Guardian has a Miliband agenda Bob Marshall-Andrews, though an unreconstructed maverick, writes a very entertaining blog, which everyone should read just to cheer themselves up in the morning. Anyway here he is on the subject of writing for the Guardian: "Just had an article urging Brown to go for growth turned down by the Guardian All my articles are turned down by the Guardian but...

Amidst all the rather tedious chatter about our leadership (if words on the blogosphere could do for a leader Brown would have been long gone) there seems surprisingly little comment on the latest figures for inequality in Britain (e.g. see the Guardian's coverage by Larry Elliott and Polly Curtis, Friday May 8, 2009 ). 'UK's income gap widest since 60s' reported the Guardian (...

Another day, another Guardian headline about the wickedness and unfairness of the Coalition. Thus Saturday’s headlines “Coalition cuts will hit poor 10 times harder than rich, says TUC” will have made many Lib Dem hearts sink. But as with so many Guardian headlines recently, the headlines, and the reports they are based on are not

The Guardian… A government efficiency drive aimed at slashing spending in town halls and boosting productivity in the health service is likely to deliver billions of pounds of new business for private companies, the Guardian has learned. Outsourcing firms are preparing for a bonanza of local authority contracts to provide everything from bin men to

Hallelujah! It had to happen eventually: the Guardian is enraged! by a show of support for someone they call a 'convicted criminal'. Just to spell it out to the Guardian, Shields may indeed have been convicted, but a 'criminal'? Didn't the Guardian used to be in favour of actual trials? Still, let's check the scorecard here, guy captured by US troops on Afghan battlefield and sent to Gitmo: obviou...

What on earth was the Guardian doing accepting an advert (placed by the GLA) for a researcher for the BNP? I have no doubt that Guardian executives will justify their decision to on the grounds of liberty and free speech but it is disappointing nonetheless. Or am I over-reacting? Was their decision based upon principle or profit? I have always thought that the Guardian was keen on promoting good c...

What on earth was the Guardian doing accepting an advert (placed by the GLA) for a researcher for the BNP? I have no doubt that Guardian executives will justify their decision to on the grounds of liberty and free speech but it is disappointing nonetheless. Or am I over-reacting? Is their decision based upon principle or profit? I have always thought that the Guardian was keen on  promoting good c...