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Who is going to pay for new fire engines?
Written by Jenny Jones, Member of the London Assembly The Chair of the Fire Authority, James Cleverly, seemed remarkably confident and bullish about the success of privatisation when I questioned him on Wednesday. I found this surprising as the £1.5mtest
The consequences of the tuition fee rise: more empty University places
With a week until the deadline for students to submit their application for university, a third of Britain’s universities still have places to fill, supporting the prediction that a massive hike in tuition fees would deter students from going totest
ANDREWS HINTS AT SEPARATE EXAMS SYSTEM FOR WALES
Wales Education Minister has dropped a heavy hint that Wales could establish its own examination system in the wake of the GCSE marking fiasco. Speaking just days after he ordered the Welsh based exam board, WJEC to remark all Englishtest
The informal economy – a hotbed of entrepreneurialism?
Benedict Dellot of the RSA examines the informal economy and what potential may be found within it to stimulate the nation’s economy.
When will we fix the housing market?
Professor Mark Stephens, adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Housing Market Taskforce, asks why have we not fixed the housing market?
Look Left – The Hillsborough Report, the Olympic legacy, and decarbonisation
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
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Shocking human rights abuses ongoing in Gambia
In late August nine death row inmates in Gambia were executed. President Yahya Jammeh, who has ruled Gambia since a coup in 1994, has ordered all those sentenced to death to be killed by mid-September. Although the decision has facedtest
A bleak future for the NHS. Royal College of Physicians call for action
The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, today faces a new and damning report which shows a health service near breaking point. Released by the Royal College of Physicians, ‘Hospitals on the edge? The time for action’ points to a lack of continuity oftest
Will not supporting gay marriage get you sacked?
Joe O’Donnell is a writer at Incomes Data Services (IDS) and is writing this in a personal capacity. The Telegraph recently published an article entitled ‘Teachers “face sack” for refusing to endorse gay marriage’. This hyperbolic report uses Aidan O’Neilltest