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PMQs: what about the big issues?

In a week where big topics dominated the agenda – tax transparency, the Care Quality Commission and the rights of the families of servicemen and women killed in combat to sue for negligence, PMQs this week had the potential to be an embarrassment of riches, as well as...

Budgeting for failure

The government has fallen short on nearly all economic measures but its budget is unlikely to remedy this By Shamik Das —This month’s budget provides a good opportunity to reflect upon the present government’s economic record in the 22 months since the coalition came...

Youth unemployment déjà vu

It was déjà vu all over again as I waited for my interview on Radio 5 Live about the unemployment figures on Wednesday. Nigel Lawson was leading for the government – saying that people had to have ‘patience’. The government minister was talking about schemes that have...

The way back to government?

After a week in which hundreds of people have been slaughtered by their own government in Syria and almost three million people are still unemployed, what is the Labour party doing? Debating a parliamentary motion about whether or not a small group of people in London...