A cross-party bid to restrict carbon dioxide emissions from new power stations has narrowly failed in the Commons, according to the Press Association but unreported elsewhere. Labour backbenchers joined with the Tories and Liberal Democrats in calling for an Emissionstest
The UK’s major political parties have all pointed to the importance of encouraging and supporting more local responses to addressing big social challenges.
Without effective regulation through enforcement of legally binding standards by a genuinely independent body, a responsible media remains a distant prospect.
The Libel Reform Campaign has welcomed today’s media select committee report as “a great starting point to ensure an unprecedented overhaul of our libel laws”.
Yesterday, the BIS Committee published a report querying the Government’s planned 50p broadband tax on fixed phone lines to pay for increased broadband speeds.
On the day of George Osborne’s Mais Lecture, the Conservative party’s economic policy remains discredited. Left Foot Forward has 5 questions for him to answer.
Our guest writer is Martyn Williams, parliamentary campaigner, Friends of the Earth Ahead of the vote on the Energy Bill today, climate change minister Joan Ruddock has written to Labour MPs urging them to support the government. Here is thetest
Monday’s bomb attack, outside a courthouse in Newry, has raised fears that dissident republicans are seeking to derail progress towards completing devolution.
The parliamentary report into “Press standards, privacy and libel” has criticised the News of the World for “buying the silence” of a reporter and PI.
The IMF warning on cutting the deficit too soon, the MPs’ report into the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, schools, prisons and banks.
