Poor Little devils
01 Apr 2007
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.
Mar 2007: Mental health: The crime of being ill
Two essential changes, and yet even here the answer spells trouble ahead
01 Apr 2007
David Hewitt, a specialist lawyer on mental health, finds flaws in key changes that have to be made.
Lords Reform: a constitutional Pandora's Box
01 Apr 2007
Donald Shell, Bristol University, on the implications of going not for reform of the Lords but for their replacement.
Goodbye to the Third Way
01 Apr 2007
Anthony Giddens argues that new ideas are essential if Labour is ‘to rekindle enthusiasm amongst the electorate’.
Vote for me and I'll keep him in order
01 Apr 2007
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.
Learning and training are two skills not one
01 Apr 2007
David Ashton, an international authority on training systems, on why the government must stop confusing learning skills with those needed for the workplace.
Climate change and the big question we have not yet tried to answer
01 Apr 2007
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.
Sea Power
01 Apr 2007
Edward McAllister, Deputy Editor, LNG Focus, highlights the growing importance of sea-borne gas in securing energy supplies and in lessening dependence on pipelines.
A nicer country than Attlee's Britain, but not as nice as we could be
01 Apr 2007
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.
Bio-terror is a real threat for the future — the good news is that we can beat it
01 Apr 2007
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.
The man now proving to be his own worst enemy
01 Apr 2007
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.
Carrots but no stick
01 Apr 2007
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.
After that useless CSA, will this bring home the bacon?
01 Apr 2007
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.
To take more care with children, take more care with the facts
01 Apr 2007
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.
The crime of being ill
01 Apr 2007
Parliamentary Brief editor Roderick Crawford assesses a Mental Health Bill which might please the tabloids but which offends natural justice.
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March 2007 edition
Mental health legislation - Lords reform - Goodbye to the Third Way - Iran's president in trouble- Child welfare - Sudan - Climate change - Bio-terrorism