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This article reports that education and skills are Britain's economic weak spots. The author feels that striking the balance between technical and academic education, and making sure that both high-quality, is the biggest challenge facing Britain. He claims it matters every bit as much for social peace and cohesion as it does for economic competitiveness.

The article focuses on the northern regions of England. Economic and social indicators illustrating the relative poverty and underdevelopment of northern England compared to southern England are examined. The region's economic dependence on public spending is discussed. A loss of support in north England for the Conservative Party which dominates Great Britain's coalition government is examined.

The article discusses why women are still earning less money than men in Great Britain. The Women and Work Commission published a report on the difference between men's and women's hourly earnings on February 27th, 2006. The discrepancy between pay is attributed to women making the wrong choices early in their careers and getting dead-end part-time jobs after they have children.

The author offers opinions on income distribution and social mobility in Great Britain. A debate over research indicating that developed countries with higher levels of economic and social equality suffer fewer social problems is said to reflect the limits of views of both the left and right of the country's political culture, with one side overemphasizing the government's ability to affect social change and the other underestimating it.

The author offers opinions on social conditions in Great Britain. Statistics are cited to support the argument that many social problems such as crime and alcohol abuse have actually become less severe in the 2000s than in previous decades. The opposition Conservative Party is criticized for both exaggerating the country's social problems and for its proposed solutions to them.

This article examines the political, economic, and social state of Great Britain in the beginning of 2007. Britain has helped to shape aid for Africa, the debate on climate change, European enlargement and, last week, negotiations to restart world trade talks. The British economy has been stable and prosperous for years but according to the author, the issue of immigration has unnerved many.

The article presents news related to the economic and social conditions in Great Britain as of August 22, 1992. It is suggested that the economy is unlikely to grow significantly this year, with recovery "elusive" because of weak consumer demand. The government announced its interest in privatizing the country's two main naval dockyards, at Devonport and Rosyth. It invited companies to register potential interest by September 18, 1992. Mature students outnumbered younger students entering higher education for the first time in 1990, according to new figures. Some 237,000 mature students made up the entering class of 1990, compared with 232,000 fresh out of school. The figure was up 77% on 1980.