Disability minister ignorant on how legal aid cuts affecting disabled people
Alex Hern reveals the extent of disability minister Maria Miller’s ignorance over how her own government’s policy affects the disabled.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Cameron got it wrong on Scotland, and he probably knows it
Ed Jacobs covers the continuing fallout from Cameron’s mistaken sabre-rattling over the Scottish independence referendum.
Women turned away from refuge shelters told to sleep in Occupy camps
Vera Baird QC writes from the Commission on Women’s Safety, and reports that life is getting harder in coalition Britain for women in dangerous circumstances.
“Delivering fairness in difficult times”: Miliband outlines the “new reality”
Ed Miliband will today warn only Labour can deliver fairness in straitened times, and that whoever wins the next election will have to deal with a big deficit.
SNP: Cam’s “economic uncertainty” argument is nonsense; we’ll stick to our timetable
Humza Yousaf MSP (SNP, Glasgow), Parliamentary Liaison Officer to the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, makes the case for Scottish independence.
100 years of the ANC, Africa’s oldest liberation movement
Action for Souther Africa’s Tony Dykes looks at the history of the ANC, and wonders what the future holds for it.
Scottish Labour leader: “I want the referendum to be held as quickly as possible”
Johann Lamont MSP, leader of The Scottish Labour Party, calls on Alex Salmond to have the debate on independence now, and to have the referendum.
London 2012: 200 days to drop Dow
Barry Gardiner MP writes about the growing campaign to force London 2012 Olympic Games organisers LOCOG to drop DOW Chemicals as a sponsor.
How well does Boris do on apprenticeships?
The Green Party’s Darren Johnson AM argues that apprenticeships need to be rehauled, and that London could show the rest of the country how to do it.
Growth revision shows economic recovery is off track
Revisions to the national accounts data published by the ONS just before Christmas show economic recovery in the UK was stronger in 2010 than previously thought.