While the government has dithered, low-paid, insecure employment has flourished like some rapacious mould. Madeleine Bunting reports.

The irony of the Police Federation’s failure to secure permission to march through Parliament Square in protest at the government’s latest pay deal is impossible to miss, writes the Morning Star, but we should not let our amusement get in the way of solidarity.

New Labour’s claim that a three-year wage freeze will help to keep inflation in check is a myth, explain Yuri Prasad and Anindya Bhattacharyya