MELISSA BENN | The PM surprised many with his call for a ‘Tobin tax’ on banks. But the move is in tune with the economic climate and public distaste for excessive earnings
STEPHEN COURT | Does university freedom matter? Universities in the UK have, in theory, freedom – or more precisely, autonomy - from political interference to decide which students to enrol, what to...
HEATHER WAKEFIELD | Sorry to be a party-pooper, but this has been another of ‘those’ weeks in Unison’s local government section – an increasingly familiar week, in which our ‘Jobs Watch’ tracked the...
JACKIE ASHLEY | The Kelly report has proposed controversial reforms to expenses, but we
are no nearer knowing whether MPs are actually doing their jobs properly
JOE FARRINGTON-DOUGLAS | At the risk of over-extending a metaphor, is it possible to change the mood music in health policy without a touch of discord?
JUDY HIRST | These are uncharted waters for the public finances. Few of those trying to steer a way through the wreckage wreaked by financial meltdown have a map, let alone a moral compass, to...
MARK HELLOWELL | There is now widespread concern that the rate of capital expenditure in the UK will be inadequate for a very long period, hampering growth and damaging public services. Encouragingly...
DAVE LEWIS | The Environment Agency has just started writing to organisations with details of qualification for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme
CONOR RYAN | The parties are pushing any decision on increased university tuition fees until after a 2010 election. All the predictions suggest that the review will propose that fees increase from...
How can public sector budgets be cut without damaging service quality? This question will dog politicians from now until general election day and beyond
Is it all over now? The years of relative industrial calm face a speedy end as spending cuts threaten to propel public sector unions back to the militant 1980s
PHYLLIS STARKEY | The communities and local government select committee today publishes the government’s and other official responses to our report published in June examining the framework for the...
JAMES CLOSE | 'This is no time for a novice.' Gordon Brown’s jibe at Davids Cameron and Miliband at last year’s Labour conference was surely one of the better lines of his premiership
