Tomorrow’s GDP figures will show a return to growth. In many places, however, it won’t feel like the good times are back, with the North-South gap widening.
David Cameron today spoke of a ‘social recession’. Evidence, however, suggests that the social recession goes deeper than moral failure or community breakdown.
I would love to see a reverse Freedom of Information Act to free data unless withheld. The ending of departmental attachment in the civil service (so all staff can apply to move freely across service). An office of budget responsibility.test
I would invest seriously in community-based sentences, more half way houses/intermediary options between prison and the community, more residential places out of custody for offenders with mental health problems, close all womens prisons and place women offenders in open residentialtest
The row over racist and sexist comments allegedly made by Rod Liddle continue. This blog has learnt that Independent editor-in-chief Simon Kelner still wants Liddle.
Moving the UK from being one of the most unequal developed world societies to being one of the most equal would yield huge benefits, new research has confirmed.
NESTA have announced the winners of the Big Green Challenge, a £1 million prize for communities in response to climate change. We report on the new innovations.
A new facebook group has been set up to stock The Shock Doctrine in Haiti. But the IMF have only agreed an emergency £100m loan with conditions attached.
The bankers’ windfall tax has failed to curb the bonus culture. The Government should listen to over 100 MPs and announce a High Pay Commission.
Following today’s front-page article in the Guardian, warbubf universities could be “brought to their knees”, we take a detailed look at the impact of the cuts.
