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The decision to close Sulivan does everything that Tories say they oppose when it comes to education.
We were invited to argue the case for the proposition on The Big Questions last Sunday.
Unfortunately, the policies that work tend to deliver much less dramatic headlines.
In 2010 and 2011, just 2,500 top bankers earned enough in bonuses to bring all 750,000 Londoners currently on poverty wages up to a living wage.
Mainstream banking facilities have all but disappeared from low income areas. The Bank of Salford offers an alternative model.
The First Minister of Wales has declared that the tax varying powers being offered to the Welsh government are “pretty much useless”.
Stoking up anti-EU sentiment may be popular with the right-wing press, but it creates uncertainty around jobs and investment.
Earlier today I took part in a debate with controverisalist Katie Hopkins.
Ed Miliband’s speech shows that politicians of all stripes have had damascene conversions on their attitudes to the banking sector.
Competitor banks to shake up the system should primarily have community interests as its focus. What Miliband is signalling at today is a good first move.
