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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Is the Green Party now the natural home for disaffected lefties?
With the Lib Dems in Coalition with the Tories, the Green has policies to please those who feel abandoned by other left-of-centre parties.
Beware of pushing Catholics out of the progressive club
Kevin Meagher on why it would be a mistake for liberals and those on the left to push Catholics out of the progressive club with their anti-Papal rhetoric.
A responsible deficit reduction plan
With the Spending Review just four weeks away, pressure is beginning to ramp up on George Osborne with widespread public dissatisfaction over his cuts and a challenge from his colleague, Boris Johnson, over the strategy. Pre-empting the Labour leadership candidates’test
Consumers charged for copyright infringement
The Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills this week concluded its consultation on how to pay for the enforcement elements of the new the Digital Economy Act (DEA).
PI no. 4: See change: Opening policy research to the public
The fourth in our series of Political Innovation essays – this one is about opening up policy research to the public.
GPs’ “major concerns” about Lansley’s reforms
It has been described as the Coalition’s Charge of the Light Brigade – but now it seems the cavalry are having second thoughts, the cavalry being GPs.
The great DWP conjuring act on worklessness figures
The Department for Work and Pensions is under pressure to improve levels of transparency and accountability following a FullFact.org investigation yesterday.
Counter-terrorism policy must chart a more progressive course
Earlier this week, at an event in the House of Commons, Demos launched ‘memorandum on the mainstream – memos to labour’s next leader’.
Balls in Tribune & on QT: “When the facts change, I change my mind”
The Milibrothers may be ‘increasingly confident’ about their chances of being the next leader of the Labour Party, but Ed Balls thinks his economic policy could be a winner.