April 2011
Govt. must go beyond cosmetic changes to health bill warn Lib Dem activists
It’s at this time that the Liberal Democrat grassroots pressure for changes must be heard the loudest, to prevent the government from making cosmetic or wrong-headed amendments to the NHS legislation and try to pass them off as significant improvements to the policy.
Sinn Fein “seething” at dissidents over Ronan Kerr’s killing
Kevin Meagher provides analysis on the aftermath of the tragic murder of Ronan Kerr, by dissident Republicans in Northern Ireland.
No accident that emergency waiting times are longer
Dominic Browne reports on the rise in accident and emergency waiting times since Andrew Lansley scrapped government targets.
Are Lib Dems deserting a sinking ship?
Ed Jacobs rounds up all the latest gaffes and electioneering from Wales and Scotland in the run-up to the elections.
As fuel duty cut is wiped out, calls grow to wean nation off oil
George Osborne's much heralded penny cut in fuel has already been wiped out by rising oil prices - less than two weeks on from the announcement, reports Shamik Das.
OECD’s inconvenient truth for right-wing ‘Rally Against Debt’
A new report by the OECD out today contains a key graph that won't please the Rally Against Debt brigade, writes Left Foot Forward's Will Straw.