Tory Cancer Drug Fund is fatally flawed
The Tories’ new Cancer Drug Fund is fatally flawed. It is uncosted, inequitable, inefficient, and subject to top-down political control.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Cameron’s “Big Society” is in democratic deficit
David Cameron’s “Big Society” is in democratic deficit. It is merely a back-door way of allowing the wealthy and educated to clean up at the expense of the poor.
‘Climategate’ Inquiry: CRU research done “fairly and properly”
The official inquiry into the scientific research conducted by the UEA CRU has cleared the scientists at the centre of the so-called ‘climategate’ controversy.
Election Focus – Alliance Party
David Ford is Northern Ireland’s first justice minister since Westminster took back control of policing powers from the previous Stormont government in 1972.
Cameron let me down, says founder of Tory gay rights group
Two former Conservative party members have defected to Labour over the Tory party’s approach to gay rights. Both criticised David Cameron by name.
Can schools cope with migrant children?
In yet another xenophobic article from the Daily Express, this country’s children are portrayed as being under threat by an influx of migrant children.
“Same old Tories” have missed their progressive moment
Centre-Left pressure group Compass today launches a new pamphlet and website looking at how David Cameron missed his chance to change the Conservative Party.
Headteachers say only Labour will increase school spending
Fifty of the country’s headteachers have today said only Labour would guarantee “ringfenced and increased investment” in all Britain’s schools.
Politics Summary: Wednesday, April 14th
Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. David Cameron set out his “blueprint for Britain” yesterday, launching a “DIY revolution”, promising “a big society not a big state”. The Telegraph describes it as “an ambitious plantest
The mystery of the missing manifesto commitments
David Cameron has recently projected a series of high profile policy pledges to key progressive constituencies. They haven’t made it into the today’s manifesto.