New think tank GEER outline vision for Labour’s future
Dr Eoin Clarke, founder of GEER (Gender, Environment, Equality and Race), and Editor of The Green Benches, writes about GEER’s vision for Labour’s future.
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Lansley’s ‘Quality Premium’ raises further concern over the health bill
Dr. Charles West, who has been a GP and an NHS manager, writes about the latest potential conflicts of interest over the health bill – namely the ‘Quality Premium’.
The Big Society belongs to the people not the politicians
Politicians should let the public decide what the Big Society means and allow communities to make things happen on their own terms.
Coalition must stop making undeliverable promises on immigration
The coalition are starting to pray the price for making unrealistic promises on immigration and asylum, Ruth Grove-White explains
Yet another hit for the jilted generation: How bus cuts undermine students’ education
A film delivered to the Department for Education calls for more support for public transport. Buses should be a positive transport option now and in the future
The social care system is at breaking point and needs reform
Age UK, with an alliance of health charities, is calling on all three main party leaders to put aside their political differences and work to reform social care.
Diversity and democracy: Reforming the Lords
How do we embrace full democracy, reflect wider society, allow faith to flourish and treat people of all faiths and none equally; answer: a fully elected House of Lords.
Can the Oxford Dons turn the tide in the Higher Education debate?
Next Tuesday hundreds of Oxford academics will debate and vote on a motion of no confidence in the policies of the Universities’ minister David Willetts.
How Thatcher’s “property owning democracy” turned sour for today’s “jilted generation”
Three reports on housing bubbles give little hope to Britain’s young wishing to get onto the ladder writes the Green Party’s London Assembly member Jenny Jones
What should happen to an MP who is voted out of office?
The way ex-MPs get recycled courtesy of a seat in the House of Lords is often reported, but the democratic offensiveness of it is rarely commented on.