September 2009
Politics Summary: Thursday, September 17th
Health Secretary Andy Burnham will today announce plans to give patients the right to choose their GP but doctors’ leaders […]
IDS’ detailed plan at odds with Conservative housing policy
Iain Duncan Smith’s new report may come as a shock to some of his Tory colleagues
Today give platform to climate denier
With the US and EU reportedly at odds over securing a climate deal at Copenhagen, and doctors warning of a "global health catastrophe" if we don’t get one, you might think we need less confusion about climate change in the media, not more. Why then does the Today programme continue to give air-time to people who have no credentials to talk about climate change?
Heffer: Underclass of single parents lead to criminality
Simon Heffer in today’s Telegraph (“The underserving poor will be Cameron’s biggest headache”) repeats the myth of: “an underclass of single […]
Bleak employment outlook but pace of growth slowing
The news that the number of people looking for work now almost tops 2.47 million underlines that while the UK […]
UK fulfilling fruits of 1980s deregulation not 1970s “paranoia”
In his article in yesterday's Daily Mail, Francis Wheen claims that our society is the fulfillment of 1970s paranoia. He also has a book out, called "Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia." But Wheen does our age a disservice in turning his theory of the 1970s into a theory of now.