I welcome the rail industry’s and Transport Focus’ efforts in grasping the nettle and tackling this issue.
The injection of the truth that it would mean politicians in charge of services is enough to make most people see sense.
Given that they saved the Party’s bacon, you would expect senior figures to say and do whatever it takes to keep them on side.
We must keep asking: ‘what’s the right level to pursue social repair?’ The nation is too large; the individual is too small. The community remains the right place.
“Competition doesn’t mean privatisation.” The full text of his speech to the Social Market Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Underpinned by a guarantee of a real-terms increase at minimum, this would help to draw the poison from the issue – particular for Conservatives.
The price of being thought business-minded is that it reflects particularly badly on Tory ministers when the private sector gets it wrong.
MigrationWatch has suggested that those EU migrants with skills in short supply should be able to come to the UK for a time-limited period after Brexit.
Let’s have Policy Board outside of the constraints of the Government machine – and a commission on what Britain should look like post-Brexit.
To reduce investment in infrastructure or R&D is to take away from the future – just as surely as running up unsustainable debt does.
There will always be an element of policing that involves helping those in distress or crisis. But our officers are no substitute for proper NHS services.
Its awards consume roughly a quarter of public spending. It is hard to see where the tax hikes or spending scaleback to fund them will come from if the Chancellor sticks to his guns.
The idea that all groups should have the same outcomes is just an update of the old socialist idea of equality of outcome – ignoring the choices that individuals make.
The Department of Health must establish its own complaints office, which in turn must be accountable to the Secretary of State and thence to Parliament.
Some on the left – and perhaps the right too – believe this agenda has run out of runway. Here are a few ideas to get it airborne.