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1 week ago
David Lammy has said that Labour's 2004 decision to tighten up the smacking laws should now be overhauled. He claims that if parents are given more licence to smack their children it could help prevent gang and knife crime. Do you believe it's OK to smack children?
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David Lammy steps back from partly blaming riots on anti-smacking laws but says law must be relaxed so parents can instil discipline at homeRaising the controversial issue of smacking children is "necessary and right", a senior Labour MP has said, after he was criticised for suggesting working-class[...]
1 week ago
David Lammy is wrong. Smacking fits the ethos of the street gang – it teaches our children to behave badlyTottenham's MP, David Lammy, has rejoined the debate on last summer's riots with what some may think is a surprising contribution. He's suggested that confusion over what constitutes physical [...]
1 week ago
The Games risk becoming a sporting parallel to RBS: soaking up billions of public money, then handing benefits to private sectorHere are some universal truths about the Olympics. First, the sales pitch rarely falls below hyperbolic, and second, public commentary is sceptical, if not downright critic[...]
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Tottenham MP David Lammy says legislation must be relaxed so parents can instil discipline at home without fear of prosecutionLegislation governing the smacking of children needs to be relaxed so working-class parents can instil discipline in their homes without fear of prosecution, a senior Labour [...]
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London 2012 chairman says he will 'look at' decision to refuse babies entry to Games venues without ticketLord Coe said on Friday it was "an anomaly" that expectant parents were being told their babies would be refused entry to the Olympic Games unless they had a ticket.The London 2012 chairman stre[...]
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It is hoped huge crowds will gather to watch the free event - the largest ever to have taken place north of the city centreNorth Liverpool will play a major role in the Titanic-themed Sea Odyssey spectacular which it is hoped will bring huge crowds to the city's streets this spring.It is being descr[...]
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His Republican credentials as Indiana's governor are peerless. But conservatives are in no mood for a technocratic moderateThe Republican presidential race has featured many frontrunners. Mitt Romney. Michele Bachmann. Herman Cain. But the hottest candidate right now may be one who isn't even runnin[...]
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The government suffered six defeats in the House of Lords this week as Iain Duncan Smith hoped to make progress with his controversial welfare reform bill. A rebellion in the House of Lords led by independent Church of England bishops and former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown was successful (for now a[...]
1 week ago
As the race moves to a state with a big drug problem and controverisal laws to deal with it, here's a primer on an issue that has been largely absent from the campaign trailThe battle for the Republican nomination has moved to Florida this week, which also happens to be a key battleground in an enti[...]
1 week ago
Invoking God's will as a supporting argument to his position on abortion hardly fits with the constitution he claims to upholdAs a lapsed Catholic turned atheist, a staunch feminist and someone who has a strong general aversion to sleazy, disingenuous men, I was shocked yesterday to find myself feel[...]
1 week ago
The president can thank Occupy for making his new economic populism possible. But will it be enough, come November?
• Full transcript of President Obama's state of the union addressIf you want to understand the relevance of President Barack Obama's state of the union message look at whe[...]
• Full transcript of President Obama's state of the union addressIf you want to understand the relevance of President Barack Obama's state of the union message look at whe[...]
1 week ago
The Olympic project of London 2012 insults the public-spirited legacy of The Festival of Britain and The Great ExhibitionThe organisers of London 2012 frequently assert that this summer's Olympics will leave a legacy for our times to rival the Great Exhibition of 1851 or the Festival of Britain 100 [...]
1 week ago
Republican presidential candidate tells Piers Morgan he would tell daughter to consider pregnancy 'a gift of human life'Rick Santorum would encourage one of his daughters to see a pregnancy created through rape as "a gift of human life" and urge her to not consider an abortion, the socially ultra-co[...]
2 weeks ago
Yes, a significant minority of physicians has done very nicely in the US healthcare system – but all that is changing nowWith the American presidential election approaching, a major campaign issue in 2012 will be growing income inequality in the United States. In the past three generations, family[...]
2 weeks ago
Jonathan Freedland (There was no Labour U-turn, but not many are listening, 21 January) argues Labour is forced to support the cuts because there will be no money to reverse them in 2015 after Osborne has wrecked the economy. He is wrong: there is money available now, and will be even more in 2015.W[...]
2 weeks ago
If super-rich Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination, the US can have a real debate on income disparityEarlier this month, a relatively obscure White House official, whom few Americans know, gave a speech that even fewer of them actually heard. The speaker was Alan Krueger, chairman of the White[...]
2 weeks ago
Gingrich shamelessly parlays a controversial debate statement into a racial-charged dogwhistle to South Carolina conservativesWhoIt is Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and official Mr Angry of the current race for the Republican nomination. Newt is angry about many things (Barack Obama, taxes[...]
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Never mind most foodstamp recipients are poor whites, insulting myths about African Americans and welfare win GOP cheersIt is curious that in a climate when nearly 45 million Americans are in need of food stamps, unemployment stands at 8.5%, nearly 50 million people have no health insurance and toug[...]
2 weeks ago
Last time the key issue was race. It's not been mentioned in this campaign so far - but race and class are deeply knotted togetherWith a synchronicity that borders on the cinematic, just days before Martin Luther King Day a report was released that could – could – be seen as the realisation of D[...]
2 weeks ago
The American Dream's promise of social mobility is broken. The fact is Europeans now have more opportunity to improve their lotAmerica doesn't have a class system. That's a European thing, right? Here in the Land of the Free, you can be born in a log cabin you helped to build, overcome poverty and p[...]
3 weeks ago
A Congress – half of whose members are millionaires – was at its obstructionist worst last year. But Americans can change thatAs the recent tax debacle shows, our Congress, led by the GOP-held House of Representatives, cannot agree even on the things they agree on, such as extending the payroll [...]
3 weeks ago
'Surveillance system' set up to alert medics to first signs of unusual diseases this summerA massive public health campaign in the UK and up to 200 countries around the world is being prepared by health chiefs to help guard against epidemics of infectious diseases during the 2012 Olympics and Paraly[...]
3 weeks ago
Radio 4's documentary about Britain's ageing prison population made for sobering listeningDying Inside (R4) | iPlayerBut They Are Only Russians (R4) | iPlayerLondon Soundscape (R2) | iPlayerNew Year, new you! How depressing. So let's sod the yoga and stretch the carb-slugged brain instead. Give it a[...]
3 weeks ago
We keep hearing that Romney is a moderate, but his economic policies make Reaganomics look like socialismAn old photograph of Mitt Romney has surfaced and, understandably, both liberals and conservatives are disgusted. Taken in 1966 by the Associated Press (and dug up by Buzzfeed), it shows a 19-yea[...]
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