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How to make 2012 a real year of jubilee

29 January, 2012

Tola Ositelu argues that the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee should hearken back to the original Jubilees of biblical days.

The Week Outside Westminster – Leading questions and questioning leaders

28 January, 2012

Ed Jacobs presents his weekly round up of what’s been going on in the rest of the British Isles. This week, Alex Salmond continues to dominate.

Caring for the elderly: Why cross-party reform is overdue

28 January, 2012

Reema Patel details why Britain needs to reform how we care for the elderly in the UK – but explains why it won’t be easy.

Look Left – The hate-filled Right hone in on their next target: Disabled people

Shamik Das

27 January, 2012

The hate of the hard Right, bigotry-based commentariat was on ugly display again this week – and this time, it was Britain’s disabled people in their sights.

The government has the power to stop Hester’s bonus, they just don’t want to

Ben Fox

27 January, 2012

The government has the power to do exactly what it says it can’t, and stop Stephen Hester, the director of the failed RBS bank, getting a million pound bonus.

US grew almost twice as fast as UK in 2011

Will Straw

27 January, 2012

The US economy grew by 1.7% in 2011 compared to 0.9% in the UK – almost twice as fast. The new figures put to bed Treasury spin that the two economies were on the same course.

Mandelson weighs in behind National Investment Bank

Alex Hern

27 January, 2012

Alex Hern reports on the support Lord Mandelson has given to the idea of a national investment bank, as called for by a new IPPR pamphlet

Brown’s blueprint for reform of global education may soon become reality

Shamik Das

27 January, 2012

With almost 70 million children of primary school age not in school – a figure set to rise by 2015 – urgent action is required, Gordon Brown said this week.