Why has The Times got the knives out on DfID?
Following The Times’s coverage of the International Policy Network’s allegations against DfID’s funding of the TUC they once again fuel the aid sceptics’ fire.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Ken Clarke backtracks on VAT
On Channel 4 News last night, Ken Clarke categorically denied that he had ever called for a VAT cut. In fact, he repeatedly called for a cut in November 2008.
Politics Summary: Wednesday, January 27th
The Northern Ireland talks, the inequality gap, the crawl out of recession, the Iraq Inquiry and the Lancaster House conference on Afghanistan.
The London Conference on Afghanistan must ask whether Karzai is up to scratch
The London conference on Afghanistan this week may be too soon to answer how fit to govern Hamid Karzai is, but it is surely not too early to ask it.
An airbrushing too far?
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Better rights for people with disabilities
1. Disability Hate Crime reports must be taken seriously and acted on appropriately by the police and (if not already) should receive exactly the same punishment as hate crimes against all other minorities. 2. Parents of disabled children should betest
Notts council leader ignores Thatcher’s U-turn advice
In 1980, Maragret Thatcher famously told her party conference, “You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning!” Such words would have fallen on deaf ears in Nottinghamshire where the Conservative county council leader, Kay Cutts, has madetest
Tom Watson is Labour’s top influencer on twitter
Tory Radio have produced a new index of Tory Twitter influence based on Edelman’s tweet level service. Left Foot Forward produces a similar Labour list.
SNP anger at revelation of Scotland’s £75bn “devolution dividend”
The Scotland Office has has revealed that since devolution in 1999, spending by both Westminster and Holyrood has outstripped total revenue by £75.8 billion.
McFadden turns on Tory manufacturing policy
Pat McFadden spoke last night on ‘The new industrial revolution’. He discussed the future low carbon economy and attacked the Tory approach to manufacturing.