Under the Coalition’s new Home Bonus Scheme it has been found that London and the North West would lose £125m and £65m respectively, whilst the South East would gain £108m and the Eastern region £71m.
Ben Brandzel, international online organiser who builds progressive grassroots power and currently runs campaigns for President Obama’s politcal arm, on how progressives can use online organising to create real change, and why they should.
Switch off your lights, turn off your computer and prepare to fast! We’ve run out of resources! Is this the message from Earth Overshoot Day, the day in the year by which we’ve used the globes budget of resources and pollution absorbance capacity – or is there more to it?
Our guest writer is Gareth Thomas MP, shadow minister for international development UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, returning from viewing the devastation in Pakistan for himself today has told the world to ‘wake up’ to the full scale of thetest
Yesterday The Observer reported that it had received an email confirming that only eight of Labour’s 100 commitments are to be saved. They come as part of the Tories’ drive for ‘value for money’ for UK aid, something we attest
George Osborne used his emergency Budget to cut public spending by an additional £32 billion by 2014-15. The growing list of cuts underway makes for painful reading.
Last week, the UN General Assembly made history with its declaration that water and sanitation are human rights to which all people are entitled. The resolution was the fruit of many years’ labour by campaigners from around the world, and was eventually passed by 122 votes in favour to none against, with 41 abstentions. So why did the UK’s new Lib-Con government mount such a furious campaign against it?
If Nick Clegg genuinely wants this referendum to be broad based, cross party and wants this coalition period to usher in more plural politics – he must split the bill.
Today the business of banking is business. Banking is about almost anything. As the news comes of a steep return to profit among state-supported and state-owned banks, and rumours of bonuses and dividends abound, it is worth remembering this.
Chuka Umunna MP argues that Times leader writer Phil Collins is wrong to accuse Ed Miliband of vacating the centre ground. It misunderstands the history of the last 20 years.
