Rethinking rail: Greening should look to Europe and away from privatisation
Matt Dykes, the TUC’s public transport policy officer, calls on transport secretary Justine Greening to look to Europe for examples of how to run the railways.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Tories in Scotland: A tale of two parties
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has come under fresh pressure as a poll of grassroots party members points to a complete collapse in support for her.
“According to my tax breakdown, Daily Mail readers are the biggest scroungers”
Cormac Hollingsworth turns the tables on the Daily Mail’s ‘tax breakdown’ campaign.
International development: The UK’s most popular ‘unpopular policy’
Sam Bacon, of the Global Poverty Project, urges the chancellor to commit to the 0.7 per cent target of UK GNI to be spent on international development.
The new dash for gas is utter folly
“We can’t take our foot off the gas for some time yet,” new energy secretary Ed Davey said at the weekend; Guy Shrubsole explains why this strategy is wrong.
Fine words Mr Cameron, now it’s time for action on infrastructure investment
Ahead of the budget, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves calls on the government to act fast on infrastructure investment to boost the economy.
Truly sick: Student bailed after sending racist tweets about ill Muamba
Shamik Das reports on the student accused of sending racist tweets about Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed in the match against Spurs on Satuday.
Here’s why Cameron’s ‘road privatisation’ plans are nonsensical
David Cameron’s ‘road privatisation’ proposals, which he unveiled today, are nonsensical, writes Sustrans’s Eleanor Besley.
Boris’s air quality failures are no longer funny – we need action not bluster
Labour’s Murad Qureshi AM writes about London Mayor Boris Johnson’s abject failure to tackle air pollution in the capital.
Lucas: “Dismantle this reckless ideology – before it can cause irreparable harm”
Caroline Lucas MP, leader of the Green Party, writes about the ungent need for peers and MPs, at this late stage, to vote down the health and social care bill.