February 2011
The nasty campaign: NO-to-AV stoops to new low
The Tory-led NO to AV campaign have over-stepped the mark with their latest advert against the alternative vote.
The British left should engage in serious self-reflection over Gaddafi
Colonel Gaddafi made a quite extraordinary speech this afternoon, vowing to stay on and "die a martyr"; here, Seph Brown looks at the British left's questionable relationship with the tyrant.
Bitterness and acrimony over Northern Ireland budget
Ulster Unionist Party health minister Michael McGimpsey has been forced to deny that he intends to resign following a series of high profile spats with ministerial colleagues on the Stormont Executive.
New Migration Watch report misses opportunity for balanced debate on migration
As we anticipate the next round of quarterly immigration figures from the Office of National Statistics this Thursday, a new Migration Watch UK report has been released amid a wave of media hyperbole.
Buoyant tax revenues give Osborne room to manoeuvre
The UK’s public finances were in much better shape in January than expected. There was a current budget surplus of £8.5bn and public sector net borrowing was -£3.7bn.
It’s fairer up North but inequality is rising across the board
New research by ippr north shows that the gap between the rich and poor is narrower in the North than in the UK on average, but the gap is growing across the board.