Huhne needs to impose competition on the energy ‘market’
The Government’s proposals so far to bring down energy bills are tinkering around the edges – the problem will only be properly tackled when competition is enforced.
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Poor and sick paying the heaviest price for Osborne’s deficit reduction
If you are poor and sick and have paid your National Insurance contributions you will be leading the battle to reduce the deficit, writes Steve Griffiths.
We need to make sure all young people know the true facts about higher education
Simon Hughes MP, the government’s Advocate for Access to Education, writes on the need for everyone to be honest, and not to put people off higher education.
What’s the alternative?
What’s the alternative? Newington and East Walworth Labour party are holding a debate in Southwark for local residents on the alternative to the Coalition’s cuts.
Government’s bully tactics cannot prevent a humiliating defeat
Gavin Shuker, the shadow environment minister, writes about the defeat inflicted on the govenment in the Commons last night over a ban on circus animals.
Simon Hughes’s Oxbridge-bashing masks wider assault on higer education
The Government’s ‘Access Tsar’ Simon Hughes has launched a broadside against tutors interviewing candidates as part of a university admissions process.
Two weeks left to get the Tories to deliver on Cameron’s green promises
Christian Aid is gearing up to lobby Tory MEPs to vote to toughen up EU carbon emmissions targets – in accordance with their leader’s promises.
Outrage at government plans to fast track legal aid legislation
There is widespread outrage at government plans to fast track legislation that will disadvantage the poorest and most vulnerable in society.
Fat cats will continue to milk the legal aid budget – while the vulnerable suffer
Sound Off For Justice’s Jonny Mulligan attacks the government’s plans to reduce legal aid provision and therefore access to justice for the most vulnerable.
Labour frontbencher Helen Goodman: My fears about Blue Labour
On Monday’s Newsnight, shadow prisons minister Helen Goodman MP debated Lord Glasman on the ‘Blue Labour’ concept; here, she further critiques the idea.