This morning the Work and Pensions committee publish their report on the Government’s Youth Contract, their initiative to tackle record high youth unemployment. So confident were the coalition that they thought this was the right approach, that the Labour initiative,test
Today judges ruled that letters sent by Prince Charles to ministers should be made public. Mr Justice Walker and two other judges ruled that: “The essential reason is that it will generally be in the overall public interest for theretest
After a spate of green on blue attacks, attacks by uniformed Afghan police on NATO forces, NATO has announced that they are scaling back joint operations. This development goes to the very heart of the problems facing the future oftest
Mitt Romney’s run of self inflicted electoral harm continues. Yesterday Mother Jones released a video that revealed his opinion of 47% of voters: ‘There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what… dependenttest
Matt Chappell is involved in criminal injury compensation research and writes for Pannone Law. In what must be a great relief for victims of criminal injury, the government has withdrawn its plans to reduce the levels of available compensation astest
The ongoing spat between Welsh Education Minister, Leighton Andrews and England’s Education Secretary, Michael Gove deepened yesterday following the announcement in Westminster of reforms to the examination system. Following a public spat between Cardiff Bay and Whitehall which has seentest
Nick Davies is a Policy Manager at the Charity Children England. Although talk of the ‘Big Society’ has been somewhat quiet of late, charities are still central to the Coalition’s vision for open public services and play a vital roletest
During the recent reshuffle the government shifted rightwards in both tone and substance . Cameron has long aimed to stop the Tory party from being known as the ‘nasty party’, but he is undoubtedly failing. This was reaffirmed today bytest
In a week in which the truth behind Hillsborough has been revealed and apologised for, the police has a lot to make up for. Yet this week begins with the fact that PC Simon Harwood has admitted to ‘discrediting’ thetest
Rt. Hon. David Blunkett MP, Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Faith in democratic institutions, the media and broader political processes has fallen to dangerously low levels. The 2012 Audit of Political Engagement by the Hansard Society revealedtest
