by Sam | 5 Aug 2014 | Politics
Sayeeda Warsi has resigned from her position as senior Foreign Office minister over the Government’s “morally indefensible” policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lady Warsi, Britain’s first Muslim female minister, wrote a highly critical resignation letter...
by Sam | 5 Aug 2014 | Uncategorized
As heavyweight contests in Scotland go, Alex Salmond versus Alistair Darling tonight might not have quite the explosiveness of the boxing at the Commonwealth Games last week, but will be infinitely more intriguing. And the consequences of one of combatants achieving a...
by Sam | 5 Aug 2014 | Politics, Transport
The Guardian reports that anger is growing over the return of the east coast mainline to private hands after it emerged that it had generated £1bn for UK taxpayers since 2009. The east coast mainline paid a record £235m back to the government in its final full year as...
by Sam | 5 Aug 2014 | Data, Economy, Employment
The Telegraph features a report by the National Institute of Social and Economic Research (NIESR), which predicts that the jobless rate will fall to 5.8% by the end f 2014, the lowest since the Summer of 2008, before the collapse of Lehman Brothers. An expected...
by Sam | 4 Aug 2014 | Public Sector
The right of privacy and control of data is a hot topic at the moment. Google and other internet search providers are currently grappling with the far-reaching, well intentioned, but ultimately ludicrous ‘right to be forgotten’. And under proposals to be published by...
