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A vision for a 21st century library

I am a regular visitor to the Barnsley Central Library. In the library is a plaque that reads: ‘The moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better.’ Classic Obama prose – but he’s...

Tougher on the causes of crime

Crime is a Labour issue and it is about to start rising. Crime need not rise, if the government were to act, but it will. In about six months, the headlines will appear. Labour needs to have cemented the idea that the prevention and detection of crime is a...

Between a rock and a hard place

There were two excellent pieces on Labour’s policy towards the budget deficit last week. One appeared on this site, written by an anonymous researcher to a shadow minister and the other by Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian. Both reached different conclusions on where...

Early Christmas for Rock buyers

The sale of Northern Rock to Virgin Money was announced during the mini-parliamentary recess in November and buried in the news by the crisis in Europe and the chancellor’s autumn statement, was. Setting to one side the scant regard the government gave to a...