Education Secretary Michael Gove was accused this week of “abusing statistics” by his Labour opposite number over the Government’s decision to cut £162 million of ring-fenced funding for school sports partnerships
Archive for December, 2010
Liberty, equality and community – read the ancient texts to build a New Jerusalem
By Stephen Beer /Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Labour’s Revival: The Modernisers’ Manifesto by Paul Richards
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Labour warns of ‘jobless recovery’ as Osborne defends cuts strategy
By René Lavanchy /Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Britain will see its slowest economic recovery for a generation as cash flows dry up, the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted this week as Chancellor George Osborne defended the coalition Government’s measures to erase the deficit by 2015
Prison officers ‘could be cut by 12 per cent’, warns their union
By René Lavanchy /Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Prison officer numbers could fall by more than 800 a year as the Government trims prison budgets in the wake of the Comprehensive Spending Review, a senior prisons trade unionist suggested this week
Ken urges Boris to sack fire chief Coleman after ‘break the union’ comments
By Keith Richmond /Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Ken Livingstone, the Labour Party’s candidate for Mayor of London, has called on Boris Johnson to sack his controversial fire chief Brian Coleman after he called the capital’s firefighters “thick”, condemned them as “thugs and bullies” and said: “We have to break the FBU.”
Short and slight lesson in institutional life
By Aleks Sierz /Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Kin
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Ed Miliband’s open door policy gets qualified welcome from policy forum
By René Lavanchy /Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Grassroots Labour members have given a broad welcome to party leader Ed Miliband’s plan to widen the process of internal decision making to the public
Cary Gee
By Cary Gee /Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Don’t be conned by Cameron’s happy-clappy codswallop
Arms deal cements new Russian-Venezuelan friendship
By Marcus Papadopoulos /Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Russia has recently loaned Venezuela $4 billion to buy Russian military hardware, confirming Moscow and Caracas’ growing strategic relationship. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the agreement had been made during his visit to Russia this October, although no official mention was made of this at the time
Latin America, inspired, looks to the left
By Tribune Editorial /Thursday, December 2nd, 2010After years marked by brutal totalitarianism, economic chaos and the undermining of democratic processes by American imperialism, Latin America is moving forward