The government’s drug policy: If it’s broken don’t fix it
High profile celebrities join former world leaders in campaigning for a reason and evidenced based debate on drug policy reform writes Dominic Browne.
Good Society
Coalition must stop making undeliverable promises on immigration
The coalition are starting to pray the price for making unrealistic promises on immigration and asylum, Ruth Grove-White explains
How Thatcher’s “property owning democracy” turned sour for today’s “jilted generation”
Three reports on housing bubbles give little hope to Britain’s young wishing to get onto the ladder writes the Green Party’s London Assembly member Jenny Jones
Big Society message is too vague to unlock our “hidden wealth”
The RSA’s Dr Jonathan Rowson analyses prime minister David Cameron’s Big Society concept, how it works and where it falls short in unlocking our “hidden wealth”.
Theresa May cannot ignore legitimate questions over police tactics
Labour’s Katy Clark writes on police abuses of power in recent years and why the HMIC may be limited in what they will and can do, and in the people’s trust.
Cameron’s Big Society fiddling while volunteering burns
Matching his rhetoric to the reality – Left Foot Forward’s Dominic Brown looks at how the real legacy of David Cameron’s big society is shaping up.
Cooper: Tory “reputation” on law and order “was only ever rhetoric”
One of the key arguments at yesterday’s Progress conference was that Labour, not the Conservatives, are the party who can rightly claim to be the party of law and order.
Cameron, Clarke, Dorries, Willetts… The Tories keep screwing up on gender equality
Why is it that Conservatives have such a problem with gender equality and women’s issues? The last two months alone have featured a litany of misteps by Tories.
Cameron can’t build the Big Society on mass unemployment
The massed ranks of unemployed people will not provide the country with an army of Big Society volunteers. Instead, if things continue as they are, they will become increasingly isolated, both from the world of work and from their communities.
Clarke’s problem is not that he’s tough or soft – it’s that he’s a cutter
Rehabilitation costs money. A ‘prison works’ strategy costs money – as Clarke says it costs more to send a convict to jail than a schoolboy to Eton. The problem with Clarke is not that he’s soft or tough – its that he’s a cutter.