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Diagnosis: crime
We can learn from innovations in health to tackle the causes of crime By Kieran Brett —Yvette Cooper’s impressive stewardship as shadow home secretary has maintained Labour’s credentials as the party of law and order. Labour has not lurched back to a leftist position on this issue and that is to be welcomed. A key …
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Wanted: candidates
Labour should think again about how it selects candidates for the police and crime commissioner elections By Rhys Williams —After months of uncertainty, Labour’s National Executive Committee decided in December to stand candidates in the first police and crime commissioner elections. This decision is to be welcomed. As a political party it is Labour’s purpose …
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It’s the environment, stupid
The environment may point the direction to restoring Labour’s economic credibility. There is little doubt in among the disappointing opinion polls and leader ratings that Labour faces a problem with electoral and crucially economic credibility. I do not believe the issue of personnel should try the party the most, but of economics. For all the …
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Evidence, not dogma
Tory education ministers claim to be decentralising power. They are doing the opposite By Stephen Twigg —Listening to Michael Gove can be discomfiting, even if he does not induce a soporific reaction as TV cameras caught him doing to a group of schoolchildren recently. What makes progressives most uncomfortable is the false claim that he …
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Carrying on regardless
Further opposition to the government’s disastrous health and social care bill emerged this week. The British Medical Journal, the Health Service Journal and the Nursing Times joined thousands of doctors and nurses calling for the bill to be dropped. They say the NHS is ‘far too important to be left at the mercy of ideological …
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Fair shares
Tackling executive pay by empowering shareholders is good for business and crucial to building a new economy By Chris Leslie —While cold economic weather bites hard in households across the country, for some privileged individuals this time of the year brings great cheer: the annual bank bonus season. You would have thought that the banking …
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