Network Rail must be mutualised to ensure good governance for the future
Joe Fortune calls for Network Rail to be mutualised, in an effort to ensure not only short-term good management, but long-term good governance.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Climate change sceptics and rural romantics – the Tories are a shambles on renewable energy
Kevin Meagher assesses where the Tories stand on renewable energy, in the wake of a letter signed by 101 Conservative MPs against wind farms
Dacre recalled to Leveson over Grant ‘mendacious’ claim
Alex Hern reports on the outcome of Mail editor Paul Dacre’s testimony to the Leveson inquiry, which has resulted in him being called back to a second hearing.
Ken vows to reverse Boris’s police cuts and “make the streets safer”
Three months out from May’s Mayoral elections, Ken Livingstone today unveiled his “policing pledge for London”, reports Left Foot Forward’s Shamik Das.
Economic Update – February 2012: Double dipped
IPPR chief economist Tony Dolphin presents the economic update for February 2012.
Amidst the burning flesh of Homs, Syrians plead: “We are getting slaughtered, save us”
Besieged residents of the Syrian city of Homs are crying out for Western intervention to save them from being slaughtered at the hands of Bashar al-Assad.
A prescription for the economy – better health in the long term
Asthma UK’s Neil Churchill argues that if the government are so keen to introduce tax cuts as stimulus, prescription charges should be first to go.
David Miliband is spot on in highlighting the structural roots of youth unemployment
David Miliband is right to draw attention to the youth unemployment emergency as one of the most pressing issues facing the UK, writes IPPR’s Tess Lanning.
Credit rating agencies weigh in on independent Scotland
Alex Hern reports on the news the credit rating agencies would be unlikely to give an independent Scotland a triple-A rating.
Betting shops are blighting our high streets, and councils can’t take action
Carl Packman reports on Rowenna Davis’s campaign to allow councils the powers needed to ensure that high streets aren’t overrun by betting shops.