Before any general election, anyone involved in advocacy (as I am on aid and development) indulges in ‘what would my dream manifesto look like?’ fantasies. (And then usually goes off to lobby the political parties and be told why theirtest
The parties in N. Ireland have until Friday to resolve their differences over the devolution of policing and justice, and the future of the parades commission.
Much blame for the collapse of Copenhagen has been aimed at China. But in Prospect Jonathon Porritt argues that China will dominate the green technology market.
President Obama’s State of the Union address, the Lancaster House talks on Afghanistan, Lord Goldsmith’s appearance before the Iraq Inquiry and much, much more.
The US’s military engine is running hot. The British army’s is nearing meltdown. NATO and its respective populations are war weary. Where next for the army?
New figures show that there are 900,000 fewer pensioners in poverty than 10 years ago. But the mainstream media have largely reported this as 2 million in poverty.
Questions will also be asked as to how, if he’s too busy to chair the MPA, he is able to write a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph – at a salary of £250,000
Yesterday’s report on severe child poverty confirms DWP’s official poverty figures. Between 2004-05 and 2007-08 the number of children living in poverty increased.
David Cameron is “shallow” and “an utter joke”, say campaigners after the Tories last night said there was “no justification” for abolishing hereditary peers.
Research has found that Wales has the highest proportion of children in poverty in the UK, with 15% of children living in a home making less than £12,220 a year
