Fighting for the NHS gear stick – is it forward or reverse?
Another week, another campaign victory against the coalition’s reform plans – this time it is saving the NHS Cancer Networks; Trevor Cheeseman investigates.
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Cameron can’t build the Big Society on mass unemployment
The massed ranks of unemployed people will not provide the country with an army of Big Society volunteers. Instead, if things continue as they are, they will become increasingly isolated, both from the world of work and from their communities.
The case for Gordon Brown at the IMF
Natan Doron makes the case for Gordon Brown to lead the IMF.
Interviewer: “Rape is rape, with respect”; Ken Clarke: “No it’s not”
Ed Miliband called on David Cameron to sack Ken Clarke today after the justice secretary’s remarks about rape in a BBC radio interview this morning.
Balls: Global power of reporting can be “bigger than the truth”
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, speaking at the Journalists’ Charity annual lunch today, said: “The global power of reporting these days can sometimes be bigger than the truth.”
An open letter to David Cameron on the importance of the 0.7% target
David Taylor, chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development, on why David Cameron should stand firm on the 0.7 per cent international development target.
Cameron’s government is betraying his “great passion”
TimeBank, a voluntary organisation celebrated by the government in their Big Society plans, have shed a third of their staff following a government funding axe.
Cameron’s NHS reorganisation likely to widen the health funding gap
Andrew Georgiou gives a critical analysis of David Cameron’s recent speech on the planned NHS reforms, pointing out that it ignored a key factor, competition.
Peter Hain: “We must transform the party”
Peter Hain, speaking on Saturday, called for a transformation of the party and an increase in grassroots democracy, reports Dominic Browne.
Cameron deserves praise for overruling Osborne on climate change targets
Joss Garman reports on David Cameron’s intervention in the row between the Treasury and DECC on the UK’s climate change carbon emissions targets.