Over 10,000 children under 13 in cells every year must be stopped
Sophie Willett writes about the Howard League’s aim to end the practice of jailing children under 13, which currently causes over 10,000 children to be locked up each year.
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Cameron turns Britain from an outlier into an irrelevance
Cameron’s EU decision must be seen as an opportunity in opposition to both lead and win a debate on the twin issues of the future of multilateralism and Europe.
For our economic health we need a one-off tax on the one per cent
Stewart Lansley argues that the crisis we are suffering is one of demand and inequality, and that we can solve both with a one-off redistribution of wealth.
Deal or no deal for England’s cities
A look at the government’s new plan for ‘tailored city deals’; if the practice lives up to the rhetoric, it could be a strong driver of growth in the cities.
Lobbying is just the latest way the Bully boys are monopolising power
John Cryer MP points out that the crisis of lobbying is inextricably linked with a system that reinforces the power of an elite who went to the same schools, universities and drinking clubs
George Osborne is the downgraded chancellor of a deflationary government
William Bain MP details the four basic realities about the British economy which the government is ignoring, to its peril – as well as all of ours.
How can we fight child poverty without hitting people’s pockets?
Matthew Butcher argues, with Duncan Exley, that the Living Wage is the only way to reconcile the seemingly conflicting desires to end child poverty but also to decrease taxation.
Bell Pottinger is sleazy, but lobbying can be so much more
Jonny Mulligan makes the case for positive lobbying, rather than the sad sleaze of Bell Pottinger and slimeball Peter Bingle.
Economic gloom is killing Britons’ sense of common interest
Anne Summers reports on the results of the 28th British Social Attitudes Survey.
Wheels still on despite HS2 delay
Lucy James of the Campaign for High Speed Rail says the delaying of the decision till the New Year is nothing to worry about – HS2 will still go ahead.