Supervised injection sites are sensible health care interventions
Supervised Injection sites are sensible health care interventions based on the notion that health care is actually about improving health, and also about caring.
Good Society
It’s time to tackle the caring crisis
It is vital that we all work together to get this right now before the Care Bill is passed, so that we do not leave groups of carers still slipping through the net of help and support.
Government scores ‘own goal’ on care commissioning
In a bizarre sequence of events last week, the government tabled an amendment to its own Care Bill removing the duty for the CQC to make routine checks on the commissioning of adult services.
Ed Miliband’s biggest challenge will be to convice a fatalistic electorate that government can make a difference
Miliband is not only taking on the Big Six energy companies, he is pushing back against a public fatalism about government power to effect change that has been over 30 years in the making.
What does it mean to be left wing today?
The left-right divide is an important divide in British and international politics, but far from the only one.
Comment: What Grangemouth needs is the spirit of Upper Clyde shipbuilders
The Labour Party must stand in solidarity with the people of Grangemouth.
Europeans must have their privacy safeguarded from US surveillance
Citizens’ rights to data protection and privacy must be protected.
The issue of modern slavery exposes Conservative policy at its most flawed
The Conservatives’ hostility to the European Arrest Warrant, Europol, Eurojust, and the European Bill of Human Rights fly in the face of all serious attempts to tackle trafficking.
Haulage is blighting Britain’s road safety record
The government says it wants to improve HGV safety but at the moment it is not following a coherent policy.
Tories vote with BNP to ‘set womens’ rights back 30 years’
Conservative party MEPs have voted with the BNP to oppose a resolution supporting womens’ sexual and reproductive health across Europe.