Public Services
Safe in their hands? Lansley, Cameron and the NHS in 2012
You know someone’s true feelings when they highlight failings whenever they can, yet play down any success - so it is with the coalition and the NHS in 2012.
What costs £1.3 million a pop and Boris hopes will get him reelected?
Val Shawcross argues that Boris is wasting millions of public money on an unnecessary and expensive fleet of prestige buses.
For-profit universities have failed in the US, so why import them here?
Sally Hunt argues that the experience of the USA in its experiment with for-profit universities shows the danger of importing that model to the UK
Parties across the nations split over response to strike action
Ed Jacobs runs through Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland’s responses to the strikes.
Life in the Lords logjam may be death for the health bill
Alex Hern gives a latest update on where the NHS bill stands in the House of Lords, and writes about the extent of the logjam in the upper house.
Osborne’s climb-down on train fares shows this chancellor is for turning
Alexandra Woodsworth writes about the victory for passionate campaigning that George Osborne's u-turn on fare rises represents