The quangos start to burn
The government has lit the touch paper to start the ‘bonfire of the quangos’ today in announcing that it will axe nearly 200 quangos, reports Katy Mughan.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Labour’s universal discomfort
The main reason voters in the south don’t think much of the Labour Party is, because the electorate as a whole doesn’t think much of it, explains Prof. Cowley.
An Englishman’s home is his rabbit hutch
To better understand housing, ministers should be obliged to live for part of the year in new build homes that they have forced on the rest of the country.
National standards in health and care ‘not our role’ says Coalition
Labour must define itself by defending a core level of service quality – putting back the National back into the NHS, and a new National Care Service as well.
Don’t turn your back on universities, Vince – invest in them to tackle the deficit
Universities need to be invested in; rewards include tackling the national debt in the short term while ensuring we have a highly skilled, high growth economy.
Post-Browne, Labour must strive harder for inter-generational justice
If it is David Willetts who identified inter-generational justice as a profound area of public policy interest, it must be Labour who gains from such insights.
Cameron: Miliband should put “both of his left feet forward”
This lunchtime, Ed Miliband squared up to David Cameron – who gave Left Foot Forward a special mention – for his first PMQs since becoming Labour leader.
Battle for the ‘squeezed middle’ rumbles on
Conservative commentators are beginning to sense the unease over Tory policy on the ‘squeezed middle’, reports Liam Thompson.
Political Innovation no. 6: Citizen-control of personal information
If the big political innovation of the moment is to give power back to people, then a good place to do it is with personal data – but whose data is it anyway?
Labour market weakness continues – while help for long-term unemployed is cut
Today’s labour market statistics show that there should be real government concern about the direction that our labour market is taking, reports Nicols Smith.