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Why David Cameron is right about Syria
Cameron is right. Continued engagement with the rebels, especially around this sensitive time, will eventually bring results.
This week’s most read: Cameron’s dodgy money, the Mail’s anti-MMR campaign, and Labour’s ‘out of control’ spending
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
George Osborne fails on George Osborne’s terms
George Osborne fails on his own terms.
Rather than a dose of steroids, the economy needs a more eclectic approach
In many ways, the fate of SMEs (small and medium size businesses) has come to define the current economic crisis. Across the political divide there is widespread enthusiasm for supporting this sector because it holds the key not just to improved growth figures but a more balanced, resilient and dynamic capitalist economy.
The Week in Washington: Boston bombings colour immigration debate, US alleges Syria chemical weapons use and more
Larry Smith’s weekly round up of American politics.
Fraser Nelson gets it badly wrong in today’s Telegraph
It must have seemed like quite a discovery, when Fraser Nelson found a Department for Education report which proved “that the whole premise of Labour’s education policy – that cash matters most – was false”.
Ignore for a moment the caricature of Labour’s 13 years in government; have Deloitte (who analysed the data on which Fraser Nelson’s argument is based) really discovered that levels of funding don’t matter in improving educational outcomes?
It’s time to act on tobacco packs
It is over a year now since this coalition opened its consultation on tobacco packaging and we are still waiting for their answer. Come to that, it will soon be five years since Alan Johnson launched the Labour government’s consultation.
The ultimate betrayal – Shirley Williams and the Lib Dems hit the NHS where it hurts
April 24 brought Lord Philip Hunt’s motion against the Health and Social Care Act Secondary Legislation Section 75 – a rarely achieved format in the Lords, only allowed in exceptional circumstances.
Look Left – Osborne’s lucky escape, the rise of the food bank and the media’s role in the measles outbreak
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
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