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Majority of SNP MPs absent from bedroom tax vote
Just two Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) MPs turned up to vote against the bedroom tax in the House of Commons earlier today after a prosal to repeal the tax was put forward by Labour MP Ian Lavery.
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Labour finally seems to be moving away from centralised control over service delivery
The UK is the most centralised state in the developed world.
Banning smoking in cars to demonise the poor? Not really, no
Writing in today’s Guardian, Zoe Williams has interpreted the ban as yet another way of demonising poor parents.
Scrapping housing benefit for under 25s will only feed youth homelessness
It is unlikely that scrapping housing benefit for under-25s will mean that claimants will go back to living with parents.
The SNP are wrong on currency union
Whilst I’m no fan of the chancellor, what he will say tomorrow will be a perfectly rationale defence of the interests of the rest of the UK if Scotland voted for independence.
I hope Tristram Hunt will respond positively to my invitation to discuss how a picket line works
It is a fundamental principle, not only of my union but of the movement in general, that you do not cross a picket line.
FGM is an atrocity which transcends politics – we must ensure that the Tories oppose it in deed as well as word
Tories in Europe are hampering attempts to tackle FGM.
Turkey’s new internet law challenges freedoms
If this new internet law is ratified, it could be yet another signal that Turkey is turning its back on the West.
UK banking regulation is still too weak: a response to Respublica
Carl Packman examines Respublica’s new report on civic finance and the commercial potential of Community Development Finance Institutions.