Public Services
They’re called ‘primary’ schools for a reason
If we are serious about raising school results, we’ll have to target resources towards early years and catch-up classes in primary schools. This will require the government to make tough decisions about spending on secondary education.
Labour should be proud of the success of East Coast as public enterprise in action
East Coast is doing a great job and it should be allowed to get on with it.
The success of East Coast shows that another model can work on our railways
Parliament will today debate a government proposal to re-privatise the East Coast mainline. Despite the fact that the current not-for-dividend operator will have returned £800 million to the taxpayer by the end of this financial year, the government is keen to return East Coast rail services to private hands as speedily as possible.
As the New York cycle scheme launches, a look back at London’s ‘Boris bikes’
With the residents of New York looking forward to the launch of a city-wide cycle sharing scheme in June, it's the ideal time to look back at the highs and lows of London's own 'Boris bikes' - as they are affectionately known.
Conflict over fire cuts in London
We are almost at the final post with the fire consultation in London (final day for submissions is 17 June) with cuts proposed to 12 fire stations, 18 engines and 520 firefighters.
Improvement in our schools is not helped by Ofsted’s soundbites
For the second time this week the education sector has taken a beating, this time with the Ofsted report on the way that schools support high ability pupils.