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The Airline Trade
Past and present mergers demonstrate the need to let the airline industry oprate with less restriction.
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Unopen Skies
The discrepencies among Open Skies agreements in place today and in the past have created a tangled web, which must be stream-lined.
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The crime of being ill
Parliamentary Brief editor Roderick Crawford assesses a Mental Health Bill which might please the tabloids but which offends natural justice.
Author: Roderick Crawford
Published: 2nd April 2007
Filed Under: Health, NHS, Legislation, Mental Health, Law
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Two essential changes, and yet even here the answer spells trouble ahead
David Hewitt, a specialist lawyer on mental health, finds flaws in key changes that have to be made.
Author: David Hewitt
Published: 2nd April 2007
Filed Under: Health, NHS, Legislation, Mental Health, Law
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Lords Reform: a constitutional Pandora's Box
Donald Shell, Bristol University, on the implications of going not for reform of the Lords but for their replacement.
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Goodbye to the Third Way
Anthony Giddens argues that new ideas are essential if Labour is ‘to rekindle enthusiasm amongst the electorate’.
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Vote for me and I'll keep him in order
Paul Bew on why Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams played the ‘strong man’ card in the elections in Northern Ireland, and so trumped their opponents.
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Learning and training are two skills not one
David Ashton, an international authority on training systems, on why the government must stop confusing learning skills with those needed for the workplace.
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Climate change and the big question we have not yet tried to answer
Saleemul Huq, head of climate change, International Institute for Environment and Development, on why we must do more about adapting to and not simply mitigating global warming.
Author: Saleemul Huq
Published: 2nd April 2007
Filed Under: Environment, Climate Change, Adaptation, Kyoto
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Sea Power
Edward McAllister, Deputy Editor, LNG Focus, highlights the growing importance of sea-borne gas in securing energy supplies and in lessening dependence on pipelines.
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A nicer country than Attlee's Britain, but not as nice as we could be
Pat Thane, Professor of Contemporary British History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, looks at the way we have changed and what still needs to be done to make Britain an equal society.
Author: Pat Thane
Published: 2nd April 2007
Filed Under: Legislation, Equality, Inequality, Social History
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Bio-terror is a real threat for the future — the good news is that we can beat it
Paul Nightingale and Caitríona McLeish, of the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, believe that the use of biological weapons is a threat the West can meet.
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The man now proving to be his own worst enemy
Ali Ansari, University of St. Andrews, reports on the increasing disquiet in Iran over a tub-thumping president who has plunged the economy into chaos.
Author: Ali Ansari
Published: 2nd April 2007
Filed Under: , Middle East, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Proliferation
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Carrots but no stick
Sudan expert Gillian Lusk describes how the failure to recognise the crisis in Darfur as primarily political rather than humanitarian has confused the UK’s response.
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After that useless CSA, will this bring home the bacon?
Graeme Cooke, Social Policy researcher, ippr, sets out the tests by which the new child support system will be judged, and the changes it must make to succeed.
Author: Graeme Cooke
Published: 2nd April 2007
Filed Under: , Children, Education, Social Policy, CSA, Child Support Bill
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To take more care with children, take more care with the facts
David Berridge, Professor of Child and Family Welfare, University of Bristol, says that while the care system certainly needs continuing incremental reform it will not be helped by radical overhaul.
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Poor Little devils
Professor Sir Albert Aynsley-Green, Children’s Commissioner for England, says it is time to stop demonising children and young people and start supporting them.
Author: Sir Albert Aynsley-Green
Published: 2nd April 2007
Filed Under: Children, Education, Social Policy, Unicef