Five signs the Tories are losing the plot
Anyone noticed the Conservatives behaving a bit oddly lately?
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We must do better on apprenticeships
With more than 1 million young people in UK still out of work, there is a real need to create opportunities for young people.
Britain is failing to protect minority women
Attempts to address human rights abuses within minority communities is too often met with accusations of bigotry.
The progressive case against the face veil
If opposition to the face veil is bigoted then my grandmother and great-aunt are bigots for describing their own experience of wearing the burqa in the 1930s and 40s as “physical and mental slavery”.
A rather interesting Red Ed. (On Miliband’s 2013 conference speech)
This was a speech more about crowd-pleasing, with some of the crowd thankfully way outside the hall, barely aware of him or it.
Why Thatcher’s children are key to Labour’s future
If Labour is to win in 2015, it will need to win over 25 to 44 year olds.
Budget hits the pause button on Scotland
Scotland’s finance secretary John Swinney yesterday published the Scottish government’s budget for 2014/15 and 2015/16.
Education is the key to addressing climate change
Climate change is now back in the UK geography curriculum after indications from education chief Michael Gove it would be left out
Look Left: The Comprehensive Spending Review, fracking and (yet more) rape apologism
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
‘Enough is enough’ – Wales’s message to Osborne
In the latest instalment of Labour’s on-going expectation’s management effort to level with the public about what it can and can’t achieve in such a difficult financial environment, Carwyn Jones who, as first minister of Wales remains the leader of the only Labour government in the country, has warned of further cuts to come to unprotected budgets.