Further education: now the super-college
08 Feb 2007
David Robertson takes a look at the government's new FE Bill and finds much reason for optimism in its radical proposals.
Feb 2007: A Poor Deal on Pensions
Taking Britain’s crime bosses to the cleaners
08 Feb 2007
Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, assesses the proposals to introduce ‘ASBOs for gangsters’
Power to the people?
08 Feb 2007
Local government analyst Chris Game argues that key parts of the government’s plans are ‘half-baked and overly directive’.
Mental health legisaltion in Scotland
08 Feb 2007
Simon Lawton-Smithon on why new Scottish legislation has struck the the right balance between patient rights and public risk.
A lesson to learn: Scottish health legislation
08 Feb 2007
Sandra McDougall on why Westminster should heed the new Scottish law on mental health if it is ensure the right balance between patient rights and public risk.
Childhood and risk
08 Feb 2007
Tim Gill, former Director of the Children’s Play Council, argues that it is time to accept that children need to learn to take risks if they are to grow up to become responsible adults.
A parish smarter than the CSA
08 Feb 2007
Historian Thomas Nutt on the lessons the government could learn from the past rather than assuming that there never has been a ‘golden age of child maintenance’.
Flying in the face of facts
08 Feb 2007
Sally Cairns, Senior Research Fellow, Transport Research Laboratory and University College London, on why the government cannot be complacent about aviation growth.
A blacked-out Britain?
08 Feb 2007
Jonathan Stern, Director of Gas Research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, says that the task of securing energy supplies starts at home.
Scuttling the Royal Navy?
08 Feb 2007
Eric Grove, Director, Centre for International Security and War Studies, University of Salford, sets out the proposed naval cuts and what they mean for Britain's defence.
A step-change in health research?
08 Feb 2007
Dr. Michael Hopkins, Research Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex, says that the NHS would not rank as one of the global top ten in terms of industrial health research
Wanted: The Brain of Britain
08 Feb 2007
Dr. Paul Leonard, Director, IP Institute, London, on what needs to be done to boost intellectual property — and asks why no minister appears to have this responsibility.
Too much too soon
08 Feb 2007
As the government prepares to ditch SATS for eleven- and fourteen-year-olds, Sue Palmer argues that in many cases the damage is already done by this time as we send our children to school at far too young an age.
After Iraq there is no case for striking Iran
08 Feb 2007
Paul Wilkinson, Professor of International Relations University of St Andrews, argues that war prevention not preventive war should be the West’s top priority.
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Sinn Fein's moment of truth - Taking crime bosses to the cleaners - The myth of UK skills - Flying in face of the facts - Another war in the Middle East? - More power to the people, if you believe it - Why energy security starts at home