As bloggers, foreign diplomats and freedom of information evangelists revel in what twitter invariably named #cablegate, concern should also be expressed for the long term consequences of the leak by a disillusioned US military officer.
His Excellency Mr Edward Turay, High Commissioner for Sierra Leone, discusses the improvements in his country and his optimism for the future.
2011 is shaping up to be a promising year for online progressives in the UK. The first Netroots UK conference is in London on Saturday 8 January.
Dan Smith highlights the impacts of the Future Jobs Fund in Brighton and Hove, arguing it has proved cost effective, helping long-term claimants off benefits.
Declan Gaffney shows how IDS has used figures on Local Housing Allowance deceptively argue the burden of the cuts would fall on landlords
Education cuts dominated Westminster this week; cuts to school sport, cuts to higher education, cuts to Educational Maintenance Allowances, reports Shamik Das.
Comparing the funding of the Tories by one rich man to Labour’s contributions from the unions whose funding comes from the contributions its 2 million members.
The Chair of the UK Statistics Authority has identified “serious deficiencies” in DWP’s use of statistics. It follows a series of corrections to the record yesterday by IDS.
Eugenics simply isn’t part of legitimate political discourse, and modern Fabians don’t believe in it, writes Fabian Society General Secretary Sunder Katwala.
There are signs of hope in the wake of Mr Cameron’s speech that, with sufficient attention from the top and a genuine national debate, the national well-being index could be a crucially important tool in the progressive effort to transform lives for the better.
