Archive for February, 2010
Double trouble
Posted by Anastasia de Waal in Crime on 26/02/2010
Long-time gang leader and underworld ‘godfather’ Colin Gunn was back on the front pages this week as an inquest jury finally closed a case on his ordered execution of an elderly couple in 2004.
First, the basics
Posted by Anastasia de Waal in Education, Family, Marriage and the Culture on 25/02/2010
Whilst it’s good news that in England and Wales teenage pregnancies have fallen, we still have a very high number. A key lesson from the Dutch, who have a very low teen pregnancy rate, is to make crystal clear the ins and outs of reproduction. Continue reading at Guardian CiF
Silenced diplomacy
Posted by Claire Daley in European Union on 24/02/2010
The EU’s new High Representative for Foreign and Security Affairs, Catherine Ashton, may find her promised “quiet diplomacy” becomes barely audible in some international quarters, writes Natalie Hamill, after one of the EU’s most important Foreign Relations posts was handed to a close political friend of the EU Commission President.
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Immigration Minister Goes ‘Bononkers’ on the Today Programme
Posted by David Conway in Immigration on 23/02/2010
Last October, Andrew Neather, a former speechwriter to several government ministers, claimed in a newspaper article that, in 2000, the present government deliberately sought to increase foreign immigration, partly out of a belief that it would have beneficial economic consequences, and partly to neutralise Conservative concerns about the adverse negative impact foreign immigration was having on social cohesion and national identity.
Passing the baton
Posted by Anastasia de Waal in Crime on 19/02/2010
New statistics on knife crime this week showed that children as young as 10, the minimum age of criminal responsibility, were taken to court last year accused of knife crime offences.
The market can help the NHS
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 18/02/2010
The British Medical Association needs to stop its scare stories about the private sector, because the evidence isn’t there. Continued on The Guardian’s Comment is Free.