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Educators: turning the clock back
So there’s this company learndirect, and it says it’s a “a truly national provider […] with 400 delivery locations”, which apparently gives it
Read More »Oil company shells out?
In the old days, the UK had a taxation system: corporations handed a set percentage of their profits over to the state each year, and elected politicians spent the money in accordance with the priorities their party had won the ...
Read More »Austerity: the truth about life at the bottom
The empty slogans trip off the tongue: it’s the poor who are bearing the brunt of austerity… women suffer disproportionately from the cuts…
Read More »GPs: open all hours?
One of the dangers of letting political parties have conferences is that you have to put up with
Read More »Auction art for cancer care?
A couple of centuries ago, do-gooders would wander round the East End on a Sunday (flower posies held to their noses to ward off the stench of the poor), to
Read More »Get set for next May
Councillors in London will enjoy an extra three weeks in office this electoral cycle, with the announcement that the 2014 elections will be held on
Read More »Report shows “benefit scroungers” are a Tory myth
The Conservative-led Coalition Government has defended its controversial “welfare reforms” on the basis that most welfare benefit claimants are undeserving, work-shy scroungers who have been living a life of luxury funded by the hardworking tax-payer. Back on planet earth, the ...
Read More »Cost of uni mounts under Tories
Research from Santander has provided up to date figures on just how expensive going to university is for the average student these days. Making students pay for their own education is pretty much a wet dream for the Tories, who ...
Read More »The benefits of the “health and safety” culture
The debate over health and safety is one which brings out the differences between the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. At the start of 2012, David Cameron famously announced that his new year’s resolution was to get rid of ...
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