Abbott: Cameron should be straight about his intentions on the NHS
Under the coalition’s plans, the independent regulator Monitor, could have the twin role of promoting competition as well as integration of care.
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Hurrah for the climate deniers: How the Daily Mail swallowed enviroscepticism whole
Tim Holmes reports on the latest Daily Mail scaremongering and misrepresentation of the climate change debate.
Ofsted finds little profit in vocational business courses
An Ofsted report found problems in post-16 business studies. They found that students work and teachers’ extending and deepening of their understanding was weak.
Government’s latest u-turn puts political goals ahead of effective jails
The coalition government’s considered approach to justice was welcomed by penal reformers, who considered it a once in a generation opportunity for change.
Cable should work with unions, not bully them, for the good of the economy
Threatening to tighten the UK’s already strict labour laws highlights a coalition government focused on conflict not consensus, writes Unite’s Mik Sabiers.
Westminster must take on energy giants to prevent fuel poverty
That even now, in 2011, families are forced to choose between whether to heat the home or eat a meal, is absurd and tragic in equal measure writes Olly Parker
International development back in the news – where it belongs
Jim Dobbin MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Global Action Against Childhood Pneumonia, rounds up the latest news on international development.
A price too high? The risks of not protecting nature are startling
The Natural Environment White Paper, ‘The Natural Choice’, does offer some hope for protecting UK wildlife, writes Friends of the Earth campaigner Paul de Zylva.
The marketised core of the government’s universities plan is rotten
David Barclay, president of the Oxford University Student Union, says David Willetts’s plans are rotten to the core, and will teach students the price of everything and value of nothing.
F1 should not become an instrument of oppression of the Bahrain government
Max Mosley, former president of the FIA, says Formula 1 should not host the Bahrain Grand Prix, and become a tool of the government and thus an instrument of oppression.