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Across the nations the message is clear – It’s time for the chancellor to change course
Ahead of the chancellor publishing the Spending Review, the likes of which he never intended to make, across the nations the devolved governments are clear.
It’s not that the cuts aren’t deep enough already, it’s that the economy has barely grown
The chancellor will announce £11.5 billion pounds worth of cuts today because the UK economic recovery is the slowest for 100 years.
Poorest areas in London have worst pollution
When it comes to London’s exceptionally poor air quality Mayor of London Boris Johnson has his head stuck firmly in the sand.
Daily Mail columnist says Rihanna’s fashion sense ‘invites rape’
We’ve already written about the Daily Mail once today. But woe betide me for not expecting to find two items to pull them up on in a single day.
This time it’s a tad more serious, however. In a spiteful article about Rihanna, Mail columnist Liz Jones writes that the pop star is a “toxic role model” for young fans because she glories in “drugs, guns and sleaze”.
JP Morgan wants Europe to be rid of social rights, democracy, employee rights and the right to protest
This is an agenda for hard right, corporatist, centrist government. There’s another word for that, and it’s what the bankers seem to want.
Rather than only publishing the names of benefit claimants, how about full blown Swedish-style tax transparency?
Why should transparency only apply to welfare claimants when even those who rely on a private income have relied upon the state in some way to support them at some point in their lives?
DWP admits more lies and misdeeds re fake psych ‘test’
There has been considerable furore over the fake psychometric ‘test’ the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been forcing jobseekers to use under the threat of ‘sanction’ (immediate loss of benefits) since I revealed it in April and the Guardian newspaper published its own account of the story at the beginning of May.
The Daily Mail makes money from graphic video…after boasting that it forced Google to remove graphic videos
Do readers of a national newspaper really need to see a video of a women being killed by a shopping trolley? Sure, report the story if you must, but accompanying the piece with an enticing call to “scroll down for the video”?
An incoming Labour government will need an iron discipline on public spending and a bold plan for growth
In 2010 George Osborne set out his plan to rescue the UK’s economy, but this week we’ll once again see his failure laid bare. He told the country he would balance the books in this parliament, but his failure to get the economy moving again means that whoever is in government after May 2015 will inherit a deficit of over £90 billion.
The coalition doesn’t want to ‘buckle’ on legal aid cuts – but who will suffer as a result?
The coalition had a tough fortnight over its proposals to cut legal cut. And with a backbench debate scheduled for this Thursday, and the minister in front of the Justice Committee next month, it’s unlikely to get much easier.