Bulgaria’s wiretapping scandal, dubbed as the country’s ‘Watergate’ is a messy criss-crossing of accusations and leaked wiretaps. Former agricultural minister Naydenov has accused ex-interior minister Tsetanov of illegally wiretapping politicians in the previous Cabinet. Tsetanov, often referred to as former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s right-hand man, denies any wrongdoing and has blamed the Socialist opposition… [Read More]
Genuinely equal constituencies are possible if the boundaries get drawn after voting, not before.
Yesterday we published An Exchange Rate Target: Why we need one, by entrepreneur and economist John Mills. He argues that the government should set an exchange rate target to lower the value of the pound to help exporters. Some may see this idea as untested and radical, a big jump into the unknown. This is… [Read More]
A developing story in health in recent weeks has been the issues with the government’s rollout of NHS 111, a new non-emergency triage telephone service designed to combine NHS Direct and local out-of-hours services, since its initial ‘soft-launch’ in the run up to April 1st. The idea is that by combining these services and equipping… [Read More]
By David Green, director of Civitas Today we have published An Exchange Rate Target: Why we need one, by John Mills. It argues that the value of the pound should fall. Demand for the pound has been kept artificially high because we have been selling off our businesses and high-end residential properties to overseas owners… [Read More]
The government must decide by May 2014 whether to ‘opt in’ to all 130 EU police and criminal justice measures. The Home Secretary intends to opt out – which legally must be done en masse – before negotiating re-entry to specific measures which fit Britain’s needs. This re-entry right is enshrined in Lisbon. The measures… [Read More]
After two months of being suspended in a political no man’s land, Italy is finally forming a government. This week the re-elected President Giorgio Napolitiano, chose Enrico Letta, of the centre-left Democratic Party, to be Italy’s Prime Minister. It has not been a straightforward process; elections in February were inconclusive, with the centre-left coalition led… [Read More]
If teachers really are excluding covertly, maybe they need some better, legal options. They may already be making up for parents’ shortcomings.
Hopes for greater competition and pluralism in the banking sector were dashed today as The Co-operative Group pulled out of a deal to buy 632 bank branches from Lloyds Banking Group, citing the worsening economic outlook and also regulatory requirements in the banking sector as reasons. The Guardian reports that the deal will be a… [Read More]
Recently, NHS England board chair Malcolm Grant made some comments in the Financial Times that Guardian journalist and King’s Fund fellow Nicholas Timmins described as a “mini-bombshell”: “It’s not my responsibility to introduce new charging systems but it’s something which a future government will wish to reflect [on], unless the economy has picked up sufficiently,… [Read More]