It’s a telling sign of our dependence on foreign oil that all eyes turn to the price of a barrel of crude as events in the Middle East, which ought to give us cause for hope, are causing despair in the UK with petrol hitting the £1.40 a litre level.
Andrew Lansley said: “Patients must have more say and more choice.” Patient Opinion succeeds in giving them more say; the only question is: will the government listen?
Darren Johnson, Green Party member of the London Assembly, calls on London Mayor Boris Johnson to explore the idea of using public sector spending power to exert some influence on private sector pay.
Margaret Bondfield (1873-53) was the first female member of cabinet, and among the first women MPs not come either from an aristocratic background or ‘take over’ her seat from her husband, being elected with the first generation of women Labour MPs.
Wollstonecraft’s writing seriously shows that the personal is political, for she took the fact her family viewed her education as less important than her brother’s and made it her political raison d’être.
Shadow public health minister Diane Abbott writes exclusively for Left Foot Forward on the government’s proposals on public health.
Sophie Willett, of The Howard League for Penal Reform, rebuts some of the right wing tabloids’ myths about the Ministry of Justice green paper, ‘Breaking the cycle: effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders’.
The stable door had been open for a good while before News Corporation tabled its bid for the 61 per cent of BSkyB it did not already own, writes Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust.
Sarah King, TUC Brussels officer, on why MEPs should support proposals for a European Union-level Financial Transactions Tax when it’s voted on in the European Parliament next week.
There has been a lot of confusion regarding the referendum that will be held in Wales tomorrow, Thursday, March the 3rd, writes Plaid Cymru’s Director of Policy Nerys Evans.
