December 2011
Bell Pottinger is sleazy, but lobbying can be so much more
Jonny Mulligan makes the case for positive lobbying, rather than the sad sleaze of Bell Pottinger and slimeball Peter Bingle.
Irish budget day 2 – opposition attacks “socially regressive” VAT increases
Ed Jacobs reports on the latest developments from Ireland over the budget brought on by the eurozone crisis.
Does the child poverty agenda now belong to the Conservatives?
Declan Gaffney looks at the British Social Attitudes Survey 2011 and asks whether the child poverty agenda now belongs to Iain Duncan Smith’s Conservatives.
For-profit universities have failed in the US, so why import them here?
Sally Hunt argues that the experience of the USA in its experiment with for-profit universities shows the danger of importing that model to the UK
Finucane family’s campaign for justice set to challenge Cameron in court
The family of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane are set to launch legal proceedings against David Cameron’s refusal to establish a full independent judicial inquiry.
Jobs market hit by “the double whammy of falling business and consumer confidence”
The jobs market risks heading back to levels of unemployment unseen since the last time the Conservatives were in government, writes Richard Exell.