Scotland • News emerged that Scots drink 20 per cent more alcohol than the rest of Britain. SNP Health Secretary, Nicola Sturgeon concluded that it made the case for a minimum price for alcohol. Responding, Shadow Health Secretary concluded: “Thetest
The BBC’s story today on Polish emigration is wrong. The evidence reported does not disprove the claim that half the Polish migrants since 2004 have gone home.
David Cameron, in his speech on “Broken Britain” today, stands accused of “easy populism” and sending out different messages over his policies.
David Cameron today spoke of a ‘social recession’. Evidence, however, suggests that the social recession goes deeper than moral failure or community breakdown.
Former defence chief General Dannatt, who advises David Cameron and the Conservative front bench, has signalled his opposition to the renewal of Trident.
There are fears, following the Massachusetts by-election defeat, that Pres. Obama’s climate reforms could hit the rocks as swing state Democrats start wobbling.
I would like to see a comprehensive and joined up plan to deliver on the Climate Act targets – one that includes serious money from HM Treasury, and that looks again at the UK’s airport expansion plans which threaten totest
I would love to see a reverse Freedom of Information Act to free data unless withheld. The ending of departmental attachment in the civil service (so all staff can apply to move freely across service). An office of budget responsibility.test
I’d like to see more of an emphasis placed on intensive interventions for at risk children in early years. I thought Gordon Brown’s plan for a network of homes for single mothers was unfairly characterised as “gulags for slags” attest
The UK is one of the developed world’s most unequal societies – how do we address that absolute inequality into the next decade? One means is the classical way via the taxation system (a redistribution from rich to poor) andtest
