Double-counting Boris’s latest sleight of hand should come as no surprise
Boris Johnson’s adviser gave a misleading impression about housebuilding in the capital this week – but this should come as no surprise from this administration.
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Time to get our PFI tax back
Email your MP today and ask them to write to the Treasury to change their minds and act on PFI tax avoidance, says Stella Creasy MP.
Disabled people fear further impoverishment as cuts begin to hit
Kaliya Franklin reports on the Papworth Trust survey of disabled people’s responses to the governments disability reforms and benefit cuts.
The costs and consequences of Dorries’s abortion proposals
There’s no question Nadine Dorries’s proposal forcing women to be counselled somewhere other than their abortion provider will add delay and cost to the process.
Coalition’s party funding cap plans would be bad for our democracy
Decimating the Labour party’s income would be bad for our democracy – Democratic Audit’s Stephen Crone looks at the coalition’s latest party funding cap plans.
Pickles’s new national planning policy threatens motorway chaos
Analysis of the government’s National Planning Policy Framework shows journey times will rise from 3.6 minutes to 6.4 per 10 miles on a 175-mile stretch of the M1.
Spanish and Italian strikes show the growth in sporting socialism
Rich Hook looks at the strikes that have gripped Italian and Spanish football and the US NBA and NFL and says sporting socialism is alive and well in those states.
Asylum system a long way from crisis
If the media could stop seeing asylum as a peculiarly UK problem, there might be more chance we could participate in international solutions, says Matt Cavanagh.
Yet again the detractors seek to undermine GCSE results
It does seem quite extraordinary that this year’s outstanding GCSE results were greeted as being symptomatic of exams that are too easy and which need to be reformed.
India now has a unique opportunity to end corruption
Anna Hazare hunger strike: we must have confidence India will once more respond to the Gandhian call of satyagraha and listen to the moral force of peaceful protest.