The Week Outside Westminster: Across the nations, devolved parties fight the Tories
Ed Jacobs rounds up the week’s news from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Being aware of the risk, how can the government carry on regardless?
Jos Bell presents her sketch of the NHS Risk Register debate.
Boris is putting the police back behind desks
Jenny Jones AM looks at why so many civilian jobs in the Met have been replaced by trained police officers working at desks.
Britain is the sick man of the G7 – and no-one’s to blame but ourselves
Will Straw details the news that Britain is the ‘sick man’ of the G7, and asks why that is.
Stay poor with Holiday Inn at the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Darren Johnson AM reveals the failure of the mayor to live up to his promise to ensure that Holiday Inn pay the London Living Wage as an Olympic sponsor.
If RBS’s board is not held to account, it could become a new Leyland
To avoid disaster, RBS’s global markets division – the failing part of RBS – should be closed so the state can focus on its investment elsewhere.
Businesses in a funk: The real reason GDP fell in Q4 2011
GDP contracted because businesses went into a funk, cut their spending and hoarded cash instead, writes IPPR chief economist Tony Dolphin.
Workfare versus compulsory work: When is it right and wrong to mandate labour?
Richard Exell looks at the tricky issues dividing workfare (bad) from mandating paid work (good). Is there a line that can be drawn?
Wales will fight the Tory dismantling of the NHS
Lesley Griffiths explains the Welsh Labour line on the NHS, and how it plans to fight the increasing marketisation at the core of Tory plans for the service
It isn’t “anti-business” to oppose high pay for mediocrity
One Society’s Larissa Hansford argues that businesspeople don’t know the first thing about what is and isn’t “anti-business”.