Barbara Harpham: Transparency is the right path for healthcare innovation

The Government has made great strides toward making the NHS truly accountable to patients, but can and must go further still.

What would a Miliband Government mean for motorists?

The Government has eased parking restrictions – Labour threaten to put this into reverse.

Lord Flight: The shocking invasion of privacy hidden away in the Small Business Bill

And it won’t even work in its own terms. What on earth is a Conservative-led Government doing in introducing such half-baked proposals?

What Eric did in the Recess

With Mr Pickles it strikes me that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts

Jesse Norman MP: The Government needs to make the case for Big Society principles once again

It is neither paternalistic nor libertarian, but grounded in a “compassionate conservatism” whose roots lie in Adam Smith and Edmund Burke.

Andrew Allison: The right to report what your council is up to

We all have the power to scrutinise what happens in our town halls.

How is your council doing? Uses and abuses of performance data

Councils are required to provide a lot of data – some of it is of value.

Nick De Bois MP: To win in London, we can’t just bang on about immigration and the EU

I would rather Boris was in Westminster North, Ilford North and, yes, Enfield North than Newark: we need him.

Pickles sends in the inspectors to Tower Hamlets

A PricewaterhouseCoopers team is already on site.

Robert Oxley: Sorry, Mr Benyon, but Freedom of Information is an essential tool to save taxpayers’ money

The GMB may use FoI, but it’s a far stronger tool for those who want lower taxes.

Jonathan Isaby: Ten policy victories from the first ten years of the TaxPayers’ Alliance

As the TPA celebrates its tenth birthday, Chief Executive Jonathan Isaby looks back on its record so far.

WATCH: Metropolitan Police Commissioner announces plans for armed police to wear video cameras

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe intends to make armed response units more transparent.

More transparency for parents as the London Schools Atlas is published

The London Schools Atlas shows us which areas pupils in each school comes from.

Councils defying guidance to allow public to record meetings

Many local authorities are ignoring guidance to allow in citizen journalists.

Third world schools provide a stark lesson on the need for pupil testing and league tables

Like many higher education establishments, the University of Liberia holds an annual entrance exam. This year the results came as… Read more »