I would invest seriously in community-based sentences, more half way houses/intermediary options between prison and the community, more residential places out of custody for offenders with mental health problems, close all womens prisons and place women offenders in open residentialtest
We need a Green New Deal – funding domestic and industrial renewal energy capacity, public transport works and additional eco-housing capacity – to sustain economic recovery whilst combining collective and green values at the heart of government. And of course 50%test
The Daily Telegraph stand accused of misreporting remarks by Tim Berners-Lee at a press conference yesterday to mark the launch of the new data.gov.uk website.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies said yesterday there was a good chance that the deficit for the full year would come in below Alistair Darling’s £178bn forecast in the pre-budget report. Gemma Tetlow, a senior research economist at the IFS,test
There are signs that Tory-run Notts County Council’s budget proposals, advocating cuts totalling £33 million, aren’t be as well thought through as they suggest.
Iain Dale today writes that “Tories have more BME candidates than Labour.” He is wrong: Labour has 42 black and minority ethnic candidates to the Conservative’s 38.
Hidden away in today’s figures showing a rise in the no. of university applicants & students is the percentage of unsuccessful applicants – up from 22.4 to 24.7
Signs are emerging that a deal on policing and justice powers in Northern Ireland could be near to completion – a deal could be struck by the end of the week.
Howard Dean has revealed key polling data which shows that the defeat in Massachusetts was due to dissatisfaction with Obama caused by his moderate healthcare bill.
Right wing papers have reported a “record” gap between public and private sector earnings. But this includes nationalised banks – the gap shrinks without them.
