John Harris

The LearnPlay Foundation worked with 5,000 neets last year. Not one dropped out. 85% of the money comes from the European social fund
In a room plastered with storyboard plans for computer games, teenagers are clustered around screens. Some are testing ideas, others learning about programming and design techniques. All are from deprived communities in the West Midlands. None would be here if it weren’t for the European Union.
Finding Britons to rhapsodise about…

David Cameron’s support for entrepreneurs can’t hide the reality of self-employment, nor mask the erosion of proper jobs
Rejoice, rejoice. No matter that the economy shows little sign of revival: the petit bourgeois spirit that led Napoleon to malign us as a nation of shopkeepers seems in unprecedented health. Since the middle of the last decade, the number and proportion of self-employed Britons has been increasing, and the drastic events of 2008 did not…

Marmite, Pot Noodle, Persil and Walls among lines hit as Unilever workers go on strike in first of 10 days of action
The industrialist and Liberal politician William Hesketh Lever began building the Wirral village of Port Sunlight in 1888, 42 years before his family’s company amalgamated with a Dutch margarine firm to become Unilever. It may have predated the current obsession of the British political class with “responsible capitalism” by well over a century,…

We want to see how the government’s scheme hopes to get people off benefits – and what those of you on it really think
For the next instalment of Comment is free’s Anywhere but Westminster series, we’re following a suggestion posted by one RichJames on a thread about the economy we put up towards the end of last year. He wrote:

“Personally, I would value…

We want to see how the government’s scheme hopes to get people off benefits – and what those of you on it really think
For the next instalment of Comment is free’s Anywhere but Westminster series, we’re following a suggestion posted by one RichJames on a thread about the economy we put up towards the end of last year. He wrote:

“Personally, I would value…