Labour must put community, organisation and compassion at the heart of its policies if it is to prevent the Coalition from keeping the party out for the next decade, Jon Cruddas has said today.
The NHS reforms, the latest deaths in Afghanistan, the Labour leadership contest and more.
Diane Abbott has hit out at rivals for the Labour Party leadership, calling them “geeky young men in suits”, accusing them of “pretending they weren’t there” at the heart of Government.
The Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has stopped leaking oil for the first time since rupturing in April.
Official statistics out today show that crime fell by 43 per cent between 1997 and 2010; the British Crime Survey also shows that crime is down 9% from 10.5m to 9.6m offences in the past year.
Facebook is refusing to take down a tribute page to killer gunman Raoul Moat – despite a request by the prime minister.
The Tory council which last year unveiled plans for an ‘easy council’ model in which residents would be charged extra for services has voted through massive pay increases – doubling the allowances received by cabinet members and increasing the allowancestest
A manhunt is under way for the rogue Afghan soldier who killed three British soldiers in Nahr-e Saraj in Helmand province yesterday.
When interviewing Ed Balls on the Today programme this morning, John Humphreys cited a McKinsey study to claim the UK’s debt-to-GDP ratio was 469 per cent – “the highest in the world”, yet fails to clarify the full meaning of this figure nor put it into context.
Yesterday’s announcement that all 302 Primary Care Trusts in England will be abolished by 2013 with more power given to GPs represents a complete about-turn from the Coalition Agreement of less than two months ago.
