Wonga target students with friendly advice: Take our 4000% loan
Alex Hern reveals the outrageous attempt by Wonga to encourage students to take out payday loans.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Devo-max isn’t a solution, it’s a whole new can of worms
Matt Gwilliam argues that devo-max is constitutionally untenable, turning the West Lothian question into a crisis
Mitt Romney wins New Hampshire: Press round-up
Alex Hern covers the US reaction to the New Hampshire primary, which largely consists of looking ahead to South Carolina.
Salmond trumps Westminster (again)
Ed Jacobs explains how the Unionist parties have been out-strategised by Alex Salmond, who is making the case for a referendum on his terms ever-stronger.
Everyone concerned about welfare reform needs to step up to the mark
Declan Gaffney with the latest from the “Spartacus Report” into Responsible Reform of social security.
All signals are go for HS2
Alex Hern reports on transport secretary Justine Greening’s approval of HS2 High Speed Rail today.
Osborne’s slashing of legal aid: Another false economy
The government’s cuts in legal aid will cost the taxpayer more and simply shift the costs onto other government departments, writes Dr Graham Cookson.
Boris’s electric vehicle boasts are an inverted pyramid of piffle
Darren Johnson shows how consistently wrong the mayor’s claims about electric vehicles has been.
Big Society’s verdict on Cameron: Incoherent and unpromising
Alex Hern looks at the results of Third Sector’s poll of charities, and finds that they have little confidence in Cameron.
Manufacturing’s recovery ends before it starts
Tony Burke presents the bad news about UK manufacturing, and asks what the government is doing to improve the situation.