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Grassroots Lib Dems: The current bill dismantles the NHS
The Social Liberal Forum calls for a clearer duty to provide on behalf of the health minister, a curbing of the national commissioning baord to promote choice, making GP consortia more accountable and the retention of the cap on private treatment.
Will Clarke stay the course on his latest U-turn?
Johann Koehler, a researcher at Cambridge University’s Institute of Criminology, responds to Ken Clarke’s latest U-turn on crime and reoffending.
Gove’s ‘for-profit’ free schools lust overlooks warning signs from US
Michael Gove’s lack of concern that free schools may be operated by for-profit companies indicates his willingness to overlook the warning signs from the US.
Cameron’s benefit cap rewards family break-up
David Cameron has rooted the causes of the August riots in values and family break-up. So why is he proposing a benefit cap that will encourage parents to split?
Nomination for most influential left-wing thinker of the year: Barack Obama
Although an increasingly unfashionable view, President Barack Obama has three reasons to stake a claim as the most influential left wing thinker of the year.
Government inaction on green economy is holding us back
Investment in our green economy would get Britain growing and cut the deficit, but government inaction is holding us back, writes shadow minister Luciana Berger.