‘Recall to prison should protect the public, not punish instability’
There are around 85,000 people in prison in England and Wales. Over 12,000 of them are people who…
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Why on earth is stopping Labour from saying the Universal Credit won’t work?
This afternoon the Secretary of State is up before the Work & Pensions Select Committee for a chat…
It was twenty years ago today…
It’s twenty years ago today that Britain crashed out of the ERM. Here’s how the papers reported it…
The PFI legacy – and a way forward
Over the summer the financial difficulty of NHS trusts, some of which have Private Finance Initiatives, gave Lansley…
Advice to first time conference attenders
Thanks to one of the best measures in the Refounding Labour changes every CLP has been given a…
The Tories appear to have given up on boundary changes
The Tories have now followed Labour and the Lib Dems in beginning to select candidates on the basis…
IDS gets his sums wrong – by £1.85 BILLION
Yesterday The Daily Mail reported that IDS’s claim that “benefit tourism” would cost Britain £155m a year. Funnily…
Workers and businesses need a real industrial strategy, not a bank with no money and a workplace with few rights
For a man who said that pure laissez-faire economics does not work, Vince Cable’s recent proposals for a…
The latest shadow cabinet rankings – Good news for Burnham, Cruddas and Benn
No reshuffle from Ed Miliband (so far), so the shadow cabinet remains as it was a month ago…
London Assembly Member Tom Copley on same sex marriage
These elections are beyond farcical – ANOTHER PCC candidate is forced to step down
First there was the ridiculous case of Bob Ashford, who had Whitehall security clearance, but wasn’t able to…
