Britain in the growth slow lane as demand for staff stalls
Yesterday’s Eurostat data on EU growth and this morning’s Recruitment and Employment Confederation/KPMG Report on Jobs contain more depressing news on the economy.
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Cameron’s fantasy list of NHS reform backers
David Cameron today claimed the Royal Colleges of GPs, Physicians, and Nurses all support his NHS reforms – a claim at odds with reality that was met with incredulity.
Scottish Tory suicide is a gift to Salmond
Murdo Fraser, deputy leader of the Scottish Tories, is calling for the total disbandment of the Conservative party in Scotland. The SNP is delighted.
Ed Milliband’s call for global action to kickstart economy backed up by IMF
Ed Miliband’s call for an emergency G20 summit in September is backed up by an important year-long project undertaken by the IMF, writes Cormac Hollingsworth.
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,
The fragmented society: How irresponsibility and inequality feed off each other
It is a false chocie to between blaming the riots on inequality or moral irresponsbility – in a fragmented society, the two fuel each other
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
Compass book puts to Labour-Green co-operation
Labour and the Greens have much to learn from each other- if they can find a way to co-operate
In Daily Telegraph-ese, the “squeezed middle” means the very rich
The Daily Telegraph thinks the ‘squeezed middle’ begins at more than twice the ninetieth percentile of earners, writes Left Foot Forward’s Daniel Elton.
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.