Last Thursday in France, fascism claimed a life. Clément Méric, a young trade unionist and far-left activist, died under the blows of a group of skinheads in Paris.
To date school leaders have not been consulted over the development of the new GCSE syllabuses so it is highly premature to design new qualifications before this consultation has been finalised. It is now time for our legitimate voice to be listened to carefully and acted upon.
The annual Manifest/MM&K executive director Total Remuneration survey was released this week, finding that take home pay for the average FTSE 100 CEO was up to £4.3 million in 2012, an increase of 10 per cent on the previous year.
Yesterday Public Health England published an interactive map showing the levels of variation in early death rates for local authorities across England (or as some have dubbed it, the Early Death Atlas).
I believe that family instability is a problem. But it is not necessarily a consequence of the decline of the nuclear family. In modern Britain families come in all shapes and sizes and we should celebrate that.
Today the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, set out his ‘2020 Vision’ report for the capital. The report launch is the beginning of Boris Johnson’s long-goodbye to London as his attention increasingly turns elsewhere.
The idea that social security spending got out of control under Labour isn’t really backed up by Department of Work and Pensions evidence.
Those who hate the state love leaks of the sort The Guardian has been publishing. They justify their ‘Big Brother’ view of all that is supposedly bad about government.
Today’s Energy Select Committee Report on the Severn Barrage is disappointing. The Committee are clear that they would support the creation of the Barrage on the Severn estuary subject to the fulfilment of certain environmental, social and economic criteria.
The government’s decision to impose an income requirement suggests that the true motivation is simply to reduce numbers, as every British family ‘stuck’ abroad, or separated, helps to reduce net migration.
