by Sam | 7 Apr 2015 | Children and Families, Education & Children's Services, Local Government, Nutrition
Children are arriving at school hungry, sick and unable to concentrate or learn because their families cannot afford to provide the basics. That’s what the NASUWT teachers’ union heard last week. A survey commissioned by the NASUWT found an overwhelming 69 per cent of...
by Sam | 7 Apr 2015 | General Election 2015, Politics
If evidence was still needed of the Coalitions partners’ divorce… “A desperate attention seeker” and a “dangerous man”. Comments that are perhaps to be expected in the context of a general election campaign. But when it’s the Prime Minister referring...
by Sam | 6 Apr 2015 | General Election 2015
Westminster-based political communications and media relations agency The Whitehouse Consultancy has re-launched an online tool, de-mob, that aims to encourage young voters to engage with the issues that affect them ahead of the May General Election. De-mob, which...
by Sam | 2 Apr 2015 | Energy, Environment
Later this evening, seven of Britain’s political leaders will take to their respective podiums for the first major leaders’ debate of this election. The list of subjects that will arise can be predicted with relative accuracy; everyone expects that the economy, the...
by Sam | 2 Apr 2015 | General Election 2015, Health
Riding the crest of a tough guy wave following his Jeremy Paxman interview, Ed Miliband stood up to greedy profit-driven private health companies last week by announcing that Labour would introduce a cap of five percent on profits made by non-NHS providers on...
