BIRTH OF A SALESMAN - Work and pensions secretary Alan Johnson talks to PF about pay, pensions and five-year plans

COVER FEATURE - A very social problem - Successive ministers have tried to tackle the growing burden of incapacity benefit, which costs GBP 13bn a year and is claimed by three times as many people as unemployment benefits. Now David Blunkett has jumped in with both feet

Hirst, Judy, (2005)

PUNCHING BELOW THEIR WEIGHT The trade unions are in turmoil. They face internal squabbles and a scrap with ministers over plans to change the pension arrangements for public sector workers. Will the TUC congress in Brighton show a way forward?

Hirst, Judy, (2005)

The awkward age - Just when it seemed that, the Private Finance Initiative was growing up and settling down, it started to get into trouble again

Hirst, Judy, (2005)