Listening to and watching Cameron pitching the government’s misguided plans for the NHS in the speech and media interviews on Monday, I was struck by the sheer gall of the man, as well as his ‘class arrogance’, or perhaps it should be his ‘class ignorance’. Actually it is both.
Raymond Williams is bouncing back – and to prove it, there has been special interest in the twenty-third annual residential weekend of the Raymond Williams Foundation.
Esmé Madill tells of small charities that make a huge difference to some of the most vulnerable, and whose existence is imperilled by the cuts.
The future is going to work out fine for the world, for the West and Britain, despite the global crash and increasing competition from Asia. We have it from no less an authority than HSBC and their ‘The World in 2050’ report.
Ryan Gallagher gives a first-hand account of the Oldham by-election count, including a recording of the winning Labour candidate's acceptance speech.
In its spacious coverage of the story of P.C. Kennedy, aka Mark Stone undercover environmental activist, the Daily Mail looks for the upside. At the end of its account
Deborah Padfield, a Citizens Advice Bureau specialist adviser, offers a systematic breakdown of the potentially disastrous effects of proposed cuts to legal aid. She concludes that the cuts not only risk leaving the most vulnerable without access to the law, but in many cases may increase public s
In a landmark judgment on child detention at Yarl’s Wood, Judge Wyn Williams found that the UK Border Agency failed to uphold its own rules and breached claimants’ rights to freedom, privacy and family life. The coalition government’s plans to continue detaining children until May now look to be i
