The need for disaster prophylaxis – managing the risk, not the crisis
Debbie Hillier of Oxfam reports on the findings of a report into the response to the Horn Of Africa disaster, the east Africa food crisis drought.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Ken pulls ahead of “increasingly out of touch” Boris
Ken Livingstone is neck-and-neck with Boris Johnson in the London Mayoral election, the latest poll has revealed, with the contest too close to call.
When the private sector collapses for a second time
Cormac Hollingsworth looks at what happens when the private sector collapses for a second time. It begins with D and ends with ouble dip recession.
Where next for apprenticeships after the heads of the schemes resign?
Alex Hern reveals the problems at the heart of the government’s apprenticeship scheme
What’s the point of the UUP?
Ed Jacobs asks whether, with continuing calls for a joint unionist party, there is any point in the UUP’s independent existence.
“The PM is wrong: the labour market is very weak”
Richard Exell runs through the latest figures from the labour market, and finds that “it is very weak and the prospects for unemployed people are very poor.”
European socialists call for regulation of the ratings agencies
Alex Hern reports on the calls from the Party of European Socialists to regulate the credit ratings agencies, and considers what the problems with such regulation may be.
Cameron needs to start backing our young people and universities
The number of jobless 16 to 24-year-olds has risen by 52,000, to 1.04 million, which is the highest number since records began in 1992, writes UCU’s Sally Hunt.
German lessons for the British economy
Tony Burke argues that the government has many lessons to learn from Germany, and presents a new report from the TUC which aims to do just that.
The government’s replacement for DLA is not fit for purpose
Anjuli Veall of Parkinson’s UK argues that the changes being made to DLA as it becomes PIP will harm those with conditions like Parkinson’s, and anyone with a long-term, yet fluctuating condition