Local MP well-placed to lobby on police cuts
The Knutsford Guardian carried a story last week about the town’s MP visiting a local police station to thank officers who had travelled to London during the riots…
Public Services
Yet again the detractors seek to undermine GCSE results
It does seem quite extraordinary that this year’s outstanding GCSE results were greeted as being symptomatic of exams that are too easy and which need to be reformed.
The railways: Yet another broken market in the UK
The price of train travel is being pushed up by government trying to wean the industry off subsidies – an outdared policy from the boom times.
The future of the Conservative Party: Big-state Toryism
The Conservatives’ dependence on the ‘grey vote’ and on their think tank apparatus may mean they are committed to ever increasing expenditures in future.
Taxpayers’ Alliance attack NHS communications – just as government reprieves services
The Taxpayers Alliance is attacking Central London NHS trusts’s decision to recruit a top level professional to lead communications – even though it may make a difference between life and death
Even Tory voters want cuts to be temporary
A large majority of the general public – and a slim majority of Tory voters, do not want to see the size of the state shrink and cuts to be reversed at some point
Could the next Scotland Yard chief come from Scotland?
The Chief Constable of Strathclyde, Stephen House, has support across the political spectrum in Scotland, as well as in London, for the top job at the Metropolitan Police
The widening gap between the educational haves and have nots
Sally Hunt, General Secretary of the University and College Union, on a new report showing “Two Britains”, with the gap between the haves and have nots widening.
What the university access agreements won’t deliver
Usman Ali, National Union of Students (NUS) Vice President (Higher Education), writes of the flaws in the university access agreements, unveiled this week.
Cameron’s public services white paper lacks strategy and direction
The open public services white paper has no big idea – its just a jumble of wonkish fads, writes Dexter Whitfield, director of the European Services Strategy Unit.