Unemployment – a Welsh solution
This week’s UK wide unemployment figures were as damning as they were distressing, particularly when it comes to…
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A genuine double act
When Ed Miliband moved Ed Balls into the role of shadow chancellor back in January, there were many…
End indeterminate sentences: Please act urgently now
Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPPs), which keep thousands of people indefinitely in prison long after they have…
Fraud, Terrorism and the Patchwork Monkey
When I was a little girl, I was read a terrifying, horrific, mesmerising short story called The Patchwork…
Another credibility problem for Europe?
The Slovak parliament has voted against ratifying the Eurozone’s bail-out mechanism. The Slovak vote, and what it represents,…
Introducing the new Tory MEP
Today’s good news: Roger Helmer is standing down as a Member of the European Parliament. He says its…
PMQs verdict – Cameron isn’t working
Ed Miliband has sometimes been something of a slow starter at PMQs. The usual pattern involves him giving…
Peace in the Middle East should be about more than Monty Python
Professor Alan Johnson of the Britain Israel Research and Communications Centre has launched a diatribe against Labour Friends…
Adopt a peer to defest NHS reform
Today and tomorrow the Lords are debating one of the largest top down reforms of the NHS ever…
“Labour must end its laissez-faire attitude to social tensions”
‘Broken Britain’. ‘Moral decline’. ‘Disillusioned youth.’ And now, ‘feral underclass’. Ken Clarke’s sound-bite diagnosis at the Tory Party…
