November 2010
Heseltine adds to confusion over Local Enterprise Partnerships
Kevin Meagher examines the confusion over the funding behind local enterprise partnerships amidst further ambiguities in the coalition's regional policy. Business leaders have criticised the rush to switch from regional development agencies to LEPs.
It’s the press who are the dinosaurs, not us, say unions
A survey has shown that 92 per cent of trade union members believe the British media is too cynical against them, writes Unions21 director Dan Whittle.
Nick Clegg and the social mobility mystery
Nick Clegg used his Hugo Young lecture to unfurl a banner for the "new progressives". But he chose not to set out what "new progressives" think about the causes of social mobility.
Immigration cap: Too low for business, but too high to meet Government targets
The Government has today announced its long-trailed cap on immigration. The cap is more accurately described as a cap on skilled migration for work from outside the EU through Tiers 1 and 2 of the Points-Based System.
Risk of extremism in schools must be taken seriously
After extensive trailing yesterday across the BBC and other media, Panorama’s investigation of Islamic schools in the UK, ‘British schools, Islamic rules’, was broadcast last night, writes the Quilliam Foundation's George Readings.
Alexander signals Lib Dem u-turn on Barnett Formula
In an appearance before the Welsh Assembly’s finance committee yesterday, the Liberal Democrat’s cutter in chief, Danny Alexander, performed what can only be described as the next in a long line of Lib Dem U-turns, this time on how the devolved administrations are funded by Westminster.