Fathers should be helped and encouraged to work flexibly to reduce the impact that having children has on women’s careers, a think-tank says today.

Universities that focus more on teaching than research are deliberately “screening” out women who apply for permanent jobs by giving them short-term contracts that do not entitle employees to full maternity pay, according to Professor Vera Troeger of Warwick University.

New research released today by the Social Market Foundation and the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) shows that levels of happiness appear to have been highest during the Victorian era, and during the 20th Century peaked during 1957, a level to which they have never returned.

The Treasury should spend £15 billion investing directly into British firms in exchange for shares that would one day be sold to the public, a new Social Market Foundation report by Bim Afolami MP says today.

People from ethnic minorities are much less likely than white Britons to save into a pension scheme, putting millions at risk of financial hardship in later life, new research reveals today.

Having spent almost 20 years of my career at Westminster among politicians, journalists and officials, I’m struck by how political conversation is so utterly dominated by people who did A-levels and then went to university.