Are the drone strikes in Waziristan war crimes?
With questions continuing to be asked over the war in Afghanistan, freelance journalist Daniel Furr asks whether US drone strikes in Waziristan are war crimes.
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Housing benefit changes even more unfair than child benefit cuts
Chancellor George Osborne’s other announcement to introduce a cap on benefits at £26,000 is even more unfair than the child benefit changes.
Suffragettes remain campaigning role-models a century later
A century on, the Suffragettes remain exemplary role models for effective campaigning, and occupy a unique position in our national consciousness.
Vince Cable warned of Murdoch’s unregulated media power
Vince Cable has been warned that a combined News International and Sky would lead to “a reduction in media plurality to an unacceptably low level.”
How to transform Labour
Our guest writer is Gina Byrne, Compass The media is abuzz today with Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet appointments ahead of the imminent Spending Review. And yet, Labour’s new leader has much more to initiate during his first month as leader.test
Coalition looks solid but little support for an electoral pact
At ippr’s main fringe event at Tory conference, the idea of an electoral pact with the Liberal Democrats met with a pretty cool response from Tory delegates.
Big society gone mad?
Hidden in Mr Cameron’s appeal to mobilise people in the national interest, is a further, pernicious attack on law that in fact protects all of us.
By end of 2011, there will be 4.6 unemployed people for every vacancy
The economic turmoil of the past 2 years is absent from the coalition government’s ambitious prescription to reduce unemployment, explains ippr’s Tess Lamming.
Lansley’s links with health insurance industry
2020Health, the centre right think tank with close links to health secretary Andrew Lansley, is chaired by the CEO of a huge global network of health insurers.
Does the Harlem Children’s Zone really deliver?
Left Foot Forward’s Gen Maitland Hudson takes a closer look at the Harlem Children’s Zone to see just whether the cradle to college ‘pipeline’ really delivers.