Osborne’s ‘march of the makers’ is beating a retreat
Manufacturing – the great hope for George Osborne to lift the UK economy from sluggish growth – is going into reverse.
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Equal Love – the law should recognise gay marriage and same-sex civil partnerships
The Equal Love campaign has taken the cause of legal recognition of same-sex marriage and different-sex civil partnerships to the European Court of Human Rights
TaxPayers’ Alliance make a mockery of themselves by denying wellbeing evidence
The TaxPayers’ Alliance merely makes a mockery of citizens as well as themselves by denying the evidence on wellbeing, writes Jules Peck.
Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ set to leave a disastrous legacy for public services
David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ looks set to make matters worse unless public services start to support citizens in changing their communities.
The three things Cameron should know about sickness and disability benefits
Drawing on ongoing analysis of benefit receipt due to be published this autumn, we can confront David Cameron’s ignorant narrative with some real-world evidence.
Another broken Tory promise: 31 Sure Start centres have already closed
Thirty one Sure Start centres have closed since the election, despite David Cameron’s pre-election pledges and post-election promises the centres would be protected.
Cameron fuels right’s hate fixation on the BBC
In the wake of the phone hacking scandal, the right’s hatred of the BBC has loosened their grip on a core consevartive principle – upholding the rule of law.
Ministers say judge elected police commissioners on Boris: Well, Boris has failed
Ministers claim that Boris Johnson’s mayoralty has been an effective trial for elected police commissioners. If so they have been shown to fail in the light of further hackergate revelations and the plans should be ditched.
Yet again, Cameron fails to say sorry over Coulson
For the umpteenth time, David Cameron failed to fully apologise for brining the poison of Andy Coulson into Downing Street, in a Commons debate on phone hacking.
The hackgate questions Cameron must answer
In the next half hour, the prime minister will make an emergency statement to Parliament on the phone hacking scandal, as more damning revelations emerge.