Northern Ireland – splits over cuts “a recipe for disaster”
Northern Ireland’s coalition partners the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein are at odds on cuts – with a very public spat this week opening up old wounds.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Kate Green: Govt. “intent on demolishing the welfare state”
The Big Society has its limits. Only the state can really redistribute wealth to lift people out of poverty, argues Labour MP Kate Green.
Davis joins Miliband with warning on growth
David Davies today warns that David Cameron and the Conservative party that he must develop a growth strategy. It follows Ed Miliband’s call yesterday for a focus on growth.
Ed’s detoxification of Blair-Brown authoritarianism welcome news
Ed Miliband’s leadership speech was a strident attempt to detoxify the Labour brand from the widely perceived authoritarianism of the Blair–Brown years.
The case for AV
This article is taken from Litmus newspaper. Download the Litmus PDF for free from litmustest.org. The 1997 manifesto was precisely worded. The incoming government was only “committed to” a referendum on the voting system while the removal of hereditary peerstest
Web and public give thumbs up to Miliband’s big speech
Reaction on the web to Ed Miliband’s speech is fairly positive with unsurprising support from tweeting delegates and approval by supporters of his brother.
“New generation must change country”
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Labour leader’s speech live web chat
Join us for our live leader’s speech web chat from the Labour Party conference in Manchester as Mr Miliband takes the stage.
Miliband poll: The Times fails to see the Sun
In spite of sharing the same proprietor as the Sun, The Times has virtually ignored the YouGov results. They are buried at the very end of an 800 word article reporting a “leaked” Populus poll for the Conservatives which finds David is seen as the more prime-ministerial brother. And it seems that the significance of the Populus poll’s findings can be called to question.
Humans versus robots: The battle begins
This week, the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) is holding a conference in Berlin exploring options for the regulation of “killer” robots.