People are turning against welfare, other than help for the elderly and disabled, doubtful that politicians give money to the right people for the right reasons
Cleaning up the physical mess of the horrendous riots of last week may take months. Clearing up the mess caused by broken trust and shattered societal bonds in already deprived communities will take far longer. In so many ways, the violence will have horrendous consequences for all involved. Politicians and...
While we await Friday’s developments in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, the non-French press, following John Lichfield’s excellent piece in yesterday’s Independent, has moved on to discuss the French taboo of writing about private life; of the force of French privacy laws. But, in fact, the privacy laws are merely an...
“So let me get this straight,” I interrupted. “AV makes for better MPs, because they can make fewer people pissed off?” “Sort of,” explained the weary local activist. “There are so many safe seats under the current system that MPs can stroll through a career without really having to care...
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