Victory as Willetts cans for-profit universities, but vigilance is still needed
Sally Hunt welcomes the news that the government is dropping plans to support for-profit universities, but cautions against celebrating too much too soon.
Sally Hunt welcomes the news that the government is dropping plans to support for-profit universities, but cautions against celebrating too much too soon.
Joe Coward writes about the real ‘squeezed middle’, and details how it could take until 2020 for their income to reach the level it was in 2001.
William Bain lays out the evidence against a financially viable independent Scotland
Alex Hern assesses what the latest flock of polls means for Labour, and what lessons can be drawn from them
Duncan Exley writes about Cable’s failure to properly provide a stick or carrot to back up his words about tackling high executive pay
Carl Packman reviews Peter Hain’s book Outside In, and finds it to be a thoroughly good profile of a conviction politician.
Vincenzo Rampulla asks what the real Beveridge heritage is, and whether shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne is going the right way to achieving it.
Sam Royston explains why child benefit must be removed from the government’s proposed benefits cap.
Tamasin Cave argues the American lobbying regulations should show the Tories how to do transparency, and that the watered down British version doesn’t work.
MPs have signed an Early Day Motion calling for Mitt Romney’s Cayman Islands tax haven to be closed, rounding off a disastrous week for the Republican candidate.