Here we go again. Over the past 12 months or so, a little-noticed committee has been engaged in a little noticed inquiry. The committee is the Kelly Committee, which looks at standards in public life.
Archive for September, 2011
Laissez-faire coalition leads us down a cul-de-sac
By Michael Dugher /Sunday, September 11th, 2011In his Budget speech, George Osborne boldly declared: “We want the words made in Britain, created in Britain, designed in Britain, invented in Britain to drive our nation forward.”
Sisters are doing it for themselves
By Richard Woulfe /Sunday, September 11th, 2011We can write the list on similarities between Margaret Thatcher’s Government of 30 years ago and the present lot, but we await new drama to match Carol Churchill’s 1982 play Top Girls (the recent revival is directed by Max Stafford-Clark), as she shows the bleak consequences of embracing selfish, free-market capitalism
By day we run, by night we dance
By Cary Gee /Sunday, September 11th, 2011Rewind – The 80s Festival
Henley on Thames
Memories of ’68 and Paris in the spring as students get radical again
By Ian Sinclair /Sunday, September 11th, 2011Springtime: The New Student Rebellions edited by Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri
Verso, £9.99
The long march from colonialism and apartheid to multi-racial modern world
By Andrew Dodgshon /Sunday, September 11th, 2011Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits by Stephen Chan
Yale University Press, £20
Revealed: the scandal of performance-unrelated rewards at the top as pay gap in Britain gets ever-wider
By Bernard Purcell /Sunday, September 11th, 2011Stark evidence of the rapidly increasing divide between boardroom rewards and workers’ wages published this week shows soaring “performance-related” pay for directors despite no corresponding improvement in companies’ actual performance.
Now even Osborne’s favourite bond trader urges a ‘course correction’
By Bernard Purcell /Sunday, September 11th, 2011The internationally respected bond trader whom Chancellor George Osborne last year frequently quoted in support of his austerity programme said this week that the Government should make a “mid-course correction” to its so-called “Plan A” because of the weakness of the British economy.
Coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill will destroy the NHS as we know it, campaigners warn
By Bernard Purcell /Sunday, September 11th, 2011MPs returned to Westminster after the summer recess to debate the Conservative-led coalition’s controversial Health and Social Care Bill which will, its critics say, destroy the National Health Service as we know it.
Condition critical – but unions can and must lead the fight for progressive policies
By Brendan Barber /Sunday, September 11th, 2011Working together can build a mass movement against the Government’s hugely damaging cuts agenda