Time to go beyond 0.7 per cent on aid
This Thursday a thousand people from around the UK will be come to Westminster to lobby their MP on international development over a cup of tea.
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Royal Mail privatisation: Government selling the family silver
With the Royal Mail privatisation bill set to receive royal assent in coming weeks, job cuts show Royal Mail are already under pressure to attract a buyer.
UK developing cyber weapons: Do we have a doctrine?
The UK government are taking concrete steps to stop the daily incursions into government networks but doctrinally are still vague.
Time for a re-distribution of academic wealth
If distinguished academics were “incentivised” to move between universities – similar to a Teach First scheme – other places could be new Oxbridge’s.
Declining living standards pre-date the recession and threaten the recovery
Average UK living standards are in their first prolonged decline since the late 1920s. Most attribute this to the recession, but its roots go back a lot further.
On drugs policy, the government should do what the evidence tells them
Dr Michael Shiner, Assistant Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, on the need for the government to stop burying its head in the sand and reform drugs policy.
Welfare reform: The coalition’s next train crash
Shadow employment minister Stephen Timms MP writes on the failures that lie at the heart of Iain Duncan Smith’s Welfare Reform Bill – the coalition’s next train crash.
UCU is actively alienating its Jewish members
University & Colleges Union (UCU) – an organisation that has suffered a series of resignations by Jewish members claiming institutional antisemitism – is fanning those fears
Clarke asleep on the job of real prison reform
It took the coalition government five months to respond to Baroness Corston’s follow up report on women in the penal system, only to flatly reject its calls.
A big society or a breached social contract?
The attempt to control drug use through the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) has for forty years undermined trust in the criminal justice system.