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- Kickstarting taxation
Politics in Spires (Today) - George Osborne is cracking down on tax avoidance. After a scandal in which it has emerged that some major multinationals have paid little or no UK corporate tax, the head of Britain’s Treasury has announced... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Swansea solicitor takes concerns about legal aid reform to...
This is South Wales - Politics (Today) - A SWANSEA solicitor has taken concerns about the future of Wales's independent legal firms to Westminster to meet with the Lord Chancellor.Mark Davies, director of Goldstones solicitors, travelled to Westminster with other solicitors and barristers... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The Seven Sisters: Oil companies and Geopolitics
Catch 21 Productions - Blog (Today) - 28th August 1928, Achnacarry Castle- Scotland: Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Standard Oil (ExxonMobil) are the three dominant oil companies in the world. BP represents Britain, Standard Oil America and Royal Dutch Shell the Netherlands.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - MP attends volunteer awards
Margot James MP (Today) - Margot James, MP for Stourbridge, has attended the annual event to welcome the incoming Mayor of Dudley into their role as ‘Volunteering Champion’. [read more] about MP attends volunteer awards... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Boris Fights Paper With Deeper Pockets
Zelo Street (Today) - He should have realised from his affair with Petronella Wyatt: London’s occasional Mayor Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is never going to have enough financial, and therefore legal, clout to hold the press at bay... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Manchester Zizzi Restaurant Refuses To Blend Food For Ryan Moss, 17, With CP
Same Difference (Today) - I’m shocked by this. It shouldn’t happen in this century. I have CP and I have friends with CP who have similar problems to Ryan Moss. I would hate to think any restaurant would ever... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Warning from NHS Confederation latest proof that NHS not safe in David Cameron’s hands - Gwynne
Labour Party (Today) - Andrew Gwynne MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to further warnings of an A&E crisis, said: “Today’s warning from the NHS Confederation is the latest proof that the NHS is not safe in David Cameron’s hands.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Mutuals for Real
MUTUO (Today) - The Centre for Mutual and Employee owned Business at Kellogg College Oxford has joined forces with FPM (a specialist public services leadership consultancy) and Cliff Mills of Mutuo to develop a series of three cutting... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Court closure performance pledge
BBC Scotland - Politics (Today) - The chief of the court service promises that closure plans will not lead to problems in what have been described as "already over-burdened" sheriff courts.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Leader
Labour List (Today) - That’s it. Enough is enough. I try to be reasonable. But you can only push somebody so far. It’s time to sort this out once and for all. I am fed up with this huge... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Beyond Dilnot: the need for wider reform
The King's Fund (Today) - Richard Humphries For most public services, austerity is the fiscal equivalent of climate change and in the world of social care the storm clouds are gathering. That's the unequivocal message from the latest annual survey... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- UK.gov STILL wants to tout pupil data – don’t use the word ‘product’
NO2ID (Today) - Kelly Fiveash writes in The Register: At the end of 2012, Education Secretary Michael Gove told Parliament that he wanted “to share extracts of data held in the National Pupil Database for a wider range... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Danzer feels the bite as the FSC show its teeth
Greenpeace Making Waves Blog (Today) - To the layperson the world of forest certification is often a technical one that does not seem to operate at what could be called a breakneck pace. However, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has this week... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- While we’re on the subject
Wings Over Scotland (Today) - …of welfare reform, we thought you might like to hear this. It’s a short (four and a half minutes) interview with a doctor formerly employed by Atos Healthcare, broadcast on the Today show on Radio... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- UKIP's membership surges towards 30,000
George Eaton (Today) - After gaining 2,000 members this month, UKIP now has 27,517 and expects to pass the 30,000 mark once the backlog is cleared. While David Cameron reassures his party's dwindling membership that he would never employ... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Statement to Parliament: Update on Protection of Freedoms Act implementation and National DNA Database annual reports 2009 to 2012
Home Office (Today) - The Minister for Criminal Information (Lord Taylor of Holbeach) today gave this written ministerial statement in the house of commons.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- News story: Stopping wildlife crime at the border
- The coalition has already abandoned the Child Poverty Act
Left Foot Forward (Today) - Yesterday on the pages of this blog, Stewart Lansley claimed that I had "hurled a hand grenade" into the poverty debate by urging Labour to rethink its approach to child poverty. Leaving aside the hyperbole... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Is the British economy actually ‘healing’? Let’s look at the evidence
Liberal Conspiracy (Today) - The Chancellor has long been keen to tell us that “the economy is healing” and, according to the latest Bank of England forecasts, he might finally have some justification in saying this. At his press... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Kelly welcomes DOE Marine Bill Social Democratic and Labour Party (Today) - SDLP Environment Spokesperson Dolores Kelly has welcomed the passing of the Marine Bill through its final stage in the Assembly today.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Blind Chinese lawyer tells of family's persecution
Channel 4 News - Politics (Today) - Blind Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng tells Channel 4 News how his family are being persecuted after he campaigned against forced abortion.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- 'Growing gap' between Cameron and Conservative party
- Tory MP threatens Cameron with water clock torture
- Why not shrink the European Commission?
Open Europe (Today) - The online edition of German weekly Der Spiegel reports on "secret" plans by EU heads of state and government to stick to the 'one country, one EU Commissioner' principle, despite the number of Commissioners being... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Judges say knowing about philandering Boris is in the public interest
Roy Greenslade (Today) - The Daily Mail carries a front page picture today of Boris Johnson, London's mayor, with a caption-headline saying: "Boris and the lovechild he now can't keep secret."Inside is a full-page article explaining why the judges... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›