Cuts threaten to “destroy BBC Wales” claim NUJ
The National Union of Journalists has told Left Foot Forward reductions to programming threaten to “destroy BBC Wales as a separate entity”, reports Ed Jacobs.
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IFS questions Osborne’s “short sighted” failure to invest in science and skills
The Institute for Fiscal Studies today urged the government to invest rapidly in skills and science, to avoid falling further behind rising economies like China.
Cameron’s benefit cap rewards family break-up
David Cameron has rooted the causes of the August riots in values and family break-up. So why is he proposing a benefit cap that will encourage parents to split?
Head bond vigilante brands Osborne’s strategy economic “suicide”
Gidoen Osborne’s economic strategy has been savaged by the head bond vigilante Bill Gross, branding it “suicide”, reports Left Foot Forward’s Cormac Hollingsworth.
How domestic violence victims risk losing support because of the cuts
One of the ironies of austerity is that when the government does do something relatively progressive everything else they are up to subverts their good intentions.
Disabled people fear further impoverishment as cuts begin to hit
Kaliya Franklin reports on the Papworth Trust survey of disabled people’s responses to the governments disability reforms and benefit cuts.
Local MP well-placed to lobby on police cuts
The Knutsford Guardian carried a story last week about the town’s MP visiting a local police station to thank officers who had travelled to London during the riots…
Ex-Cabinet Office chief economist: slower cuts are “common sense”
Think tank boss, Jonathan Portes – who resigned recently as chief economist of the coalition’s cabinet office – says a longer deficit reduction period “is not only feasible, but sensible and prudent”.
How to build a cross-party consensus on responding to the riots
The most promising area for cross-party consensus, is what to do about the small minority of chaotic families in which children do grow up with little sense of right and wrong,
Cameron “ignorant or disingenuous” on frontline police cuts
In the Commons today, David Cameron reiterated his claim that cuts to police budgets would not affect front-line officers. But the facts do not support him.