Iain Duncan Smith is not “daring to tell the truth” about migrant workers
Iain Duncan-Smith’s ‘bravery’ on immigration may have played well on the Daily Mail, but it ignored several inconvenient facts.
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A fresh approach to countering radicalism – from an unexpected source
Ellie B. Hearne, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, writes about Google Ideas’ Summit Against Violent Extremism.
Why is Osborne relaxing anti-tax haven abuse legislation?
Martin Hearson, a tax policy adviser at ActionAid UK, explains the consequences of chancellor George Osborne’s plan to relax anti-tax haven abuse legislation.
How do unions renew their public image?
Dan Whittle, the director of Unions 21, on the need for unions to renew and make themselves relevant to the 2011 public.
Happy smoking ban day everybody! – don’t believe big tobacco’s corporate spin
Four years on, the smoking ban is popular and defintive claims that it has led to more pubs shutting are unsubstantiated.
A slow motion death for critics of NewsCorp/BSkyB deal
Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust, reacts to the news Jeremy Hunt is allowing just seven more days’ consultation on the NewsCorp/BSkyB deal.
Bus cuts are as short-sighted as they are regressive
If short-sighted bus cuts continue we will all find our society is poorer for it, writes Sophie Allain of the Campaign for Better Transport.
Business rates reform: Clegg promises poorer areas will not lose out
Nick Clegg, speaking at the Local Government Association conference, promised poorer areas will not lose out from the government’s business rates reform.
Huhne and Greening are not serving the environment, but undermining it
With the Carbon Price Support, energy secretary Chris Huhne and treasury minister Justine Greening are not serving the environment, but undermining it.
The poor and vulnerable will lose out most from the new Justice Bill
Jonny Mulligan of the Sound Off For Justice campaign looks at who will really pay the price of the government’s new Justice Bill, debated before the Commons today.