Doing the best we can with a terrible deal from the government
By Jessica Asato / @Jessica_Asato On Thursday night I was due to speak at Islington Council’s budget meeting,…
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Gesture politics of the very worst kind
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk It’s easy to yell and shout while others make difficult and unpleasant decisions.…
With one eye on Westminster, Boris Johnson makes the wrong budget choices
By John Biggs AM In all likelihood Boris Johnson’s £13.6 billion budget will be approved at City Hall’s…
Socialism and Crowdsourcing
By Carl Rowlands Technology is politically and socially ambiguous, but it is never neutral. Humans design the machines…
Only 8% of coalition MPs actively back “big society” by volunteering
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk David Cameron attempted to relaunch his floundering big society project today – but…
NHS – going, going, gone…
By Dr David Wrigley Something very dangerous is happening to our NHS. It is called the Health and…
A fissure at the heart of the Liberal Democrats
The Paul Richards column The reaction up and down the Burma Road – the warren of cramped Lobby…
Shocking Tory Tax-Trickery
Diary of a benefit scrounger By Sue Marsh I can’t quite believe what I’ve just read. Robin Hood…
Changing Young Labour – and the elephant in the room…
By Alan Scobbie / @alanscobbie Some people may groan at the idea of a retired student activist wading…
How to save the big society
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Nat Wei, the man charged by the government with making the big society…
