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1 week ago
Commons Speaker courts further controversy by declaring voters did not get what they voted for in 2010Voters feel uninspired and let down by the main political parties, John Bercow, the Speaker of the Commons has said.In an interview with Sky's Dermot Murnaghan, Bercow also suggested that people fel[...]
3 weeks ago
There is no issue of principle where LGBT and religious rights are counterposed, despite George Carey's assumptionsGeorge Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, has argued that Christian employees are excluded from many sectors of employment, have their beliefs "vilified" and are "driven underg[...]
7 weeks ago
Campaigners choose April Fool's Day to highlight the 'folly' of pool closure, months before the real torch is carried past their homes. John Baron reports.Residents protesting about the closure of their local sports centre in
Leeds are set to hold their own April Fool's Day mock 'Olympic torc[...]
Leeds are set to hold their own April Fool's Day mock 'Olympic torc[...]
7 weeks ago
Experts condemn cuts and say the need for awareness about drugs among young people is greater than everGovernment spending on drugs education has been slashed by 80% since the coalition came to power despite claims by ministers that public information campaigns are central to their anti-drugs strate[...]
9 weeks ago
Equality is essential, but complicated – that is why some Christians feel that Muslims get an easy rideSimple things can be so difficult. Take equality, for instance. Britain now has an Equality Act, to promote that good thing. But when you start looking at what it means in practice, matters get m[...]
12 weeks ago
Education secretary says Equality Act does not extend to school curriculum – allowing faith schools to use homophobic materialMichael Gove, the education secretary, is at the centre of an escalating row over how faith schools discuss homosexuality in sex education classes.The TUC has accused Gove [...]
19 weeks ago
The Olympics come with fine promises of sustainability and social responsibility. But reality doesn't always match the rhetoricIn merely seven months, London will host the 2012 Olympics. For many, the Olympics are a high-flying festival of fun, with the world's finest athletes competing under the gl[...]
20 weeks ago
Leading Labour thinker flags up 'tax and spend trap' with calls for greater Labour focus on a vision for sustainable growthEd Miliband will lose the next election if Labour falls into a trap set by the Conservatives and allows itself to be defined solely as the defender of public spending, one of th[...]
25 weeks ago
The supercommittee failed, so the people will decide in 2012: do they want a European welfare state or a return to true America?There is a fight going on in the United States. Will the federal government raise taxes on the American people to pay for the increase in federal spending from 20% of GDP t[...]
25 weeks ago
It's far from clear the government's proposed new panel will succeed in appointing more women and BAME judgesWhat's to be done about increasing judicial diversity? How do we get more women on the bench? Or judges from the ethnic minorities?The latter, incidentally, are no longer known as BME, short [...]
25 weeks ago
Justice minister announces consultation on reforming selection process to redress shortage of female and ethnic minority judgesMore part-timers should be put on the bench and fewer judges allowed to chair selection panels in order to improve judicial diversity, the Ministry of Justice has proposed.A[...]
26 weeks ago
As Ed Balls condemns depth and speed of cuts, chancellor may fall back on flexibility built into last year's budgetary goalsGeorge Osborne is planning to drive home a simple message in the runup to his autumn statement at the end of this month. Britain, he will claim, is a safe haven in a dangerous [...]
28 weeks ago
Life-raft policies must be drawn up to counter worst threat 'in living memory' to women's hard-won rights, says charityWomen's financial security and human rights are under attack on a scale not seen in "living memory" due to the coalition's austerity measures, according to a report released today.B[...]
28 weeks ago
Life-raft policies must be drawn up to counter worst threat 'in living memory' to women's hard-won rights, says charityWomen's financial security and human rights are under attack on a scale not seen in "living memory" due to the coalition's austerity measures, according to a report released today.B[...]
30 weeks ago
If we are to believe the successive versions of spin, boundaries became blurred, friendship overstepped the mark, and Adam Werritty was no more than a fantasist (Fox's allies cast his 'Walter Mitty' friend adrift, 13 October)But the real story is that of Conservatives intermeshed with neocons and ot[...]
32 weeks ago
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has problems – but it makes a huge contribution to British lifeIs Theresa May's announcement that the Human Rights Act "needs to go" another nail in the coffin for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.The EHRC is charged with promoting and enforcing its[...]
32 weeks ago
Chancellor unveils plans at Conservative conference as he positions himself as inheritor of Blairite mantleGeorge Osborne moved to deregulate the labour market by announcing big fees to deter workers bringing employment tribunal action such as unfair dismissal and race discrimination cases.In a mov[...]
32 weeks ago
David Cameron and ministers will use allocated airtime to appeal for donations to charities working for east African famine reliefThe Conservative party is to break with convention on Wednesday with a party political broadcast appealing to voters to give money to charities working to relieve the dro[...]
32 weeks ago
Ministers won't enact a public duty to reduce inequality in making strategic decisions. No surprise after their assault on the poorThe Equality Act was largely brought into force on 1 October 2010, almost 10 years to the day after the Human Rights Act (HRA). Like the HRA, many of the values that und[...]
33 weeks ago
Decision could pave way for hundreds of thousands of settlements for women, union saysHundreds of thousands of women workers should be entitled to extra back pay after the settlement of a long-running equality test case involving Sheffield city council, Britain's largest public sector union has said[...]
33 weeks ago
Andrew Lansley's attack on the burden of past private finance projects is a damaging but ultimately short-sighted weaponThe Conservatives are warming up their Greek chorus for next week's Labour conference, one that offers a commentary on past profligacy. Not just to blame for spending too much, but[...]
34 weeks ago
Tim Farron's exhortation to Liberal Democrats to re-emphasise community politics is timely (Community is our priority, 19 September), but it needs to be allied to a philosophy of community that goes beyond the daily round and the common task. A community is much more than its individual services, ev[...]
36 weeks ago
Evan Harris and Shirley Williams plan to table a motion at the party conference demanding further changes to coalition billLiberal Democrat rebels are planning a fresh move against the government's health reforms at the party conference next week after a wider than expected revolt in the House of Co[...]
36 weeks ago
Evan Harris and Shirley Williams plan to table a motion at the party conference demanding further changes to coalition billLiberal Democrat rebels are planning a fresh move against the government's health reforms at the party conference next week after a wider than expected revolt in the House of Co[...]
37 weeks ago
Test case bought by dinner ladies and care workers against Sheffield city council to be heard next monthTens of thousands of women who claim they are paid less than men doing comparable jobs could benefit when the supreme court examines a test case next month.The battle for equal pay led by dinner l[...]
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