The Daily Mail, Guardian and Times all speculate that Nick Clegg’s Lib Dem leadership is teetering this morning. His riposte is surprising – to double down on his love for the EU at his party’s spring conference. He is to debate twice with UKIP leader Nigel Farage, on LBC radio on 26th March, and on… [Read More]
Much of the comment on events in Ukraine has been discussed through a push and pull narrative between the East and West; on one side, the EU is pushing for a modern, westward-facing Ukraine, and on the other Russia is desperately trying to pull the ex-Soviet state back into its orbit, using political puppet strings… [Read More]
Evidence to support Paul Collier’s claim that migration has greater social than economic effects is easy to find.
Education, education, education Among the findings of the ONS’s paper on young people in the labour market for this quarter there is, unsurprisingly, double the amount of young people (aged 16-24) in full time education than there were 30 years ago. Creeping up to half (42 per cent) of the UK’s next generation have carried on their… [Read More]
UKIP’s leader Nigel Farage has a spring (conference promise) in his step – UKIP will win this May’s EU parliamentary elections, and at least one seat in the general election. If they fail to place an MP, Farage will quit.
Events in Ukraine have been unfolding rapidly over the past week. The eastern European country saw the return of one former president, Yulia Tymoshenko and the disappearance of Yanukovych, who was voted out by Ukrainian MPs and is now wanted by the authorities for the violence that led to the deaths of more than 80… [Read More]
Half owner-occupying households have two or more spare bedrooms.
Labour and the Conservatives are betting (or hoping) for a Liberal Democrat wipe-out at the next election. Both have floated the idea of ruling out coalition, whatever the outcome. Yesterday’s papers carried reports that Cameron was ‘fed-up’ of working with the Lib Dems and would opt for minority government if met with a similar situation… [Read More]
Whether you love your bankers free range and content or caged and taxed to the nines, the bonus cap was a bad idea. It was clear before the measure even passed that capping bonuses wouldn’t actually restrict behemoth payouts. Now HSBC has shown they can still award eye-watering sums with a little jiggery-pokery – their… [Read More]
As I write, Schools Minister Elizabeth Truss and a group of school heads are flying to China on a fact finding mission to discover why Chinese pupils excel at mathematics. This visit coincides with a report released last Monday, which revealed that the children of elementary workers (cleaners, factory workers, labourers) in Shanghai outperform at… [Read More]