Lanlsley’s latest sop to private health should come as no surprise
News that private health companies could be paid much more than their public sector NHS competitors under Andrew Lansley’s health reforms should come as no surprise.
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Government pushes through new powers to sell off our forests
The government has opened its consultation today on plans to sell-off the national forests, writes David Babbs, executive director of 38 Degrees.
Fiddling at the edges on control orders not good enough
Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, says the innocent may be still be punished without trial and the guilty will continue to evade prosecution and imprisonment.
Lambeth launches the cooperative council
Councillor Steve Reid outlines how Lambeth Council plans to become Britain’s first cooperative council.
We must ensure that the Holocaust never becomes an ‘untold story’
Today, we honour the memory of those who perished and of those who survived the darkest chapter in our shared history, to ensure that the Holocaust never becomes an ‘untold story’.
Movement for Change: Developing responses to the challenges we face
Movement for Change will be reconstituted in the spring as a permanent home for community organising within the Labour movement, writes National Director Blair McDougall.
The bonfire of the inequalities
Matthew Lockwood on the aftershocks of the financial crisis that continue to reverberate through real economies and government budgets around the Western world.
Sky’s attack on Ofcom is unjustified
BSkyB has lost patience with the process for deciding whether News Corp be allowed to buy the 61 pc of Sky it does not currently own – and yelled at Ofcom.
What an export-led recovery may mean for the world
In a downturn, export credits come to be seen as more important than ever, but ECGD needs radical reform if it’s to play any role in leading the UK out of recession.
Will Osborne be forced to rewrite his script?
The new economics foundation’s senior economist James Meadway delves into today’s GDP figures, and asks if the coalition will be forced to rewrite its script.