New BBC DG has a great opportunity for change
If new BBC Director General Entwistle succeeds in making the BBC more open, diverse and fair, questions about the justification for the licence fee should end.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Tories abolished Overseas Workers Visa that could have helped migrant slavery victims
Migrant rights abuses can quite easily go unnoticed behind closed doors and the government were wrong to scrap the visa that offered protection and support.
Caroline Spelman remains deeply confused by dangerous dogs legislation
Caroline Spelman finally responds to a consultation on microchipping dangerous dogs, yet doesn’t know that the relevant data is held by the private sector.
Government bonus crackdown ignores the outsourced sector – again
Alex Hern asks why the government’s crackdown on rewards for failure isn’t extending to firms which work almost entirely for the government – like A4e
OBR figures show a long term fiscal challenge that needs long term solutions
Projections released by the OBR today reveal the full scale of the long term fiscal challenge facing the UK
There must be cross-party commitment to passing the 0.7% international aid bill
Today is an opportunity to help deliver (possibly the only) promise that was in all three Parties’ manifestos
“I want to lie down next to them and stay here forever” – Srebrenica 17 years on
Seventeen years ago this week, more than eight thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys were massacred in Srebrenica.
The wealthiest 20 per cent have 91 times more than the poorest 20 per cent
Figures from the Office of National Statistics show huge disparities between the wealthiest households and the poorest ones.
Addressing the challenge of transforming childcare
Stephen Twigg, Yvette Cooper and Liam Byrne write for Left Foot Forward on Labour’s plans for better childcare.
Labour seize on CBI’s “damning indictment” of Osborne’s “really disappointing” growth fail
Labour sought to pile the pressure on George Osborne today following last night’s savaging of the government’s growth record by CBI chief John Cridland.