The Care Quality Commission (CQC), the regulator tasked with ensuring standards in health and social care, has today released a report showing that severe problems remain with dementia care in care homes and the NHS and that many facilities are still “struggling” to provide proper care.
George Osborne’s 2011 budget speech contained some very grand sound bites on the importance of reinvigorating British manufacturing. He announced that he wished to see ‘a Britain carried aloft by the march of the makers’, made clear that his budget supported ‘exports, manufacturing and investment’, and stressed that manufacturing ‘is crucial to the rebalancing of… [Read More]
Last month we saw how BIS and DfID used an inappropriate formula to calculate the EU’s economic benefits, and how leading Coalition politicians are using these figures unquestioningly. To demonstrate quite how wrong their calculations are, let’s look at the claim that the EU makes each household £3,300 better off each year. According to the… [Read More]
The autonomous region of Catalonia in the north east of Spain, has announced plans for a referendum on sovereignty. Early this year, the government approved a largely symbolic declaration of sovereignty, with 85 votes for, 41 against and 2 abstentions. Plans are now being made to form a transition council which will conduct research and… [Read More]
Even if processed meat carries an increased risk of early death, you may still feel it is worth taking a chance.
One of the common objections to government attempts to manage the exchange is that the government can only control nominal exchange rates, rather than real exchange rates. The implication is that exchange rate targeting by governments is futile. See for example, Phillip Booth’s cogent critique of the John Mill-authored Civitas publication A Price that Matters.… [Read More]
*That roughly means “good health” in Hebrew, if the web does not mislead me British coverage of the Israeli elections held back in January often focused on the international and security implications of the vote, as reporting in that region so often does. Therefore, we tend to remain ill-informed about Israel’s domestic policy debates. This… [Read More]
British Influence have been at it again: presenting opinion as objective fact. In the aftermath of UKIP’s recent vote surge, Peter Wilding attacks UKIP with so wide a scattergun that the entire Eurosceptic project is targeted. He writes, “Leaving the EU would not be an economic liberation. It would resolve none of the domestic failings… [Read More]
The Guardian has interpreted data from an FOI request an a sign of racial bias at Oxford but the most striking contrasts in the data concern whether candidates answered the ethnicity question at all.
Last week I examined the claims of Vince Cable, David Lidington and Ed Davey as they heralded the EU’s economic benefits. Their ‘headline’ figures were that 3.5 million British jobs depended on EU membership, and that participation in the Single Market was worth £3,300 every year to every household. They were wrong, their statistics arising… [Read More]