Stuart Weir - openDemocracy (Page 10)

Lib Dems must stand firm over control orders

The Lib Dems must stand by their promise to abolish the inefficient, discredited and unjust control orders regime, even if it risks a "car crash"

By Stuart Weir

/ 2 Nov 2010

Poor services for poor people

Nick Clegg forfeited my trust when he took his party into a coalition on an agreement to accept a deficit reduction programme that was both harsh and fast, and to

By Stuart Weir

/ 26 Oct 2010

Killing the lame goose: equality in Britain needs to be strengthened not cut

The government is cutting back the UK's equality commission but what needs to be saved is not its budget but the role it should be playing

By Stuart Weir

/ 14 Oct 2010

Bye, Bye, Blair

How Blair continues to be surprisingly superficial despite the length of his memoir.

By Stuart Weir

/ 11 Oct 2010

Media backlash over benefits ignores the real losers

The media outrage over the reduction in child benefit for higher rate taxpayers has not been matched by concern at the cap on benefits for workless families.

By Stuart Weir

/ 6 Oct 2010

Why trade unions are a good thing

It is about time that thinking people in the UK recognised that trade unions are a good thing, integral to democracy as representatives of working people who would otherwise be voiceless.

By Stuart Weir

/ 1 Oct 2010

Standing up for for the role of quangos

It is a very odd fact that somehow abolishing quangos is regarded per se as a good and even democratic action. But the leaked infomation that some 180 quangos are to be axed, and 124 merged does put in question the motives and good sense of ministers.

By Stuart Weir

/ 30 Sep 2010

Managing Terrorism, two views reviewed

The one-time head of Downing Street security strategy and an academic expert set out their views on how the authorities should respond to terrorism. One appeals to the 'genius' of the UK's system the other sets out some basic rules.

By Stuart Weir

/ 30 Aug 2010

The growing campaign against child benefit

The big mistake children make is that they do not have the vote. If they did, perhaps the insidious and influential campaign to cut or "reform" child benefit would not be gaining ground as the coalition government searches around for huge savings in order to satisfy George Osborne.

By Stuart Weir

/ 21 Aug 2010

Beware Coalition's attack on quangos

The government and Conservative ministers have been able to abolish significant and valuable bodies for ideological and personal reasons.

By Stuart Weir

/ 19 Aug 2010

Britain may soon replace the House of Lords

Alongside the coming referendum on AV Britain has been promised an elected second chamber, reformers are warned to keep their eye on both.

By Stuart Weir

/ 16 Aug 2010

Our Referendum Plus debate: team OK shares different views

OK's reviews editor sets out the nature of of our Referendum Plus debate

By Stuart Weir

/ 11 Aug 2010