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Comment & Analysis
Comment: Assad's brutality demands an effective embargo
A full economic embargo of Syria would bring the situation to a head, and prevent the Syrian people's suffering being prolonged.
Comment: Cable's university coup threatens fairness
Cable's selection of Les Ebdon shows the balance has moved from fair access to positive discrimination.
Comment: Eric Pickles' treacherous attack on British values
The Conservatives' newfound obsession with 'traditional Christian values' is a betrayal of British society.
Comment: Hosepipe bans and a cost of living crisis – it's time to talk about water
It's been one of the driest winters on record. Drought orders are already being issued.
Rachel Reeves speech on 'balancing the books' in full
Here's the full text of shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves' first major speech, to the IPPR thinktank:
Issue of the Day
Multiculturalism
The English language and Christian faith should be positioned at the centre of public life, communities secretary Eric Pickles said yesterday.
Podcast
politics.co.uk podcast: Time to intervene in Syria?
Frustrated MPs are becoming increasingly anxious about the situation in Syria - and the need to intervene.
Opinion Former Comment
TACT: Looked after children and Offending: Reducing Risk and Promoting Resilience
Many myths exist about looked after children, one of which is spending time in the care system leads to crime. Whilst it is true looked after children are over represented in the youth courts (and prison population), less than 10% of the looked after population actually come into contact with the justice system.
bpas: Taking stock of the morning-after pill
Clare Murphy, BPAS Director of Press and Public Policy, discusses the reaction to BPAS’s Christmas campaign promoting advance prescription of the Emergency Contraceptive Pill.
BHA: Main opposition to reform on assisted dying will come from well-funded but unrepresentative religious lobby
The British Humanist Association calls for compassion and rationality on assisted dying.
Mayhew Animal Home: A call for dog ownership reform
Over twenty organisations, including The Mayhew Animal Home, are now campaigning as a united voice for the coalition government to finally take action in revising dangerous dog legislation.
bpas: Inflating the cost of abortion services
Clare Murphy, BPAS Director of Press and Public Policy, challenges the claim that ‘taxpayers spend £30million a year more on abortion than previously thought’.
Ian Dunt
The faithful can't be trusted to have a political voice
Religion can have a role in political debate, but its adherents must stop trying to gain special privileges.
Alex Stevenson
More light than heat in financial privilege row
So how are peers taking the constitutional nose-snubbing they've endured by the Commons, which invoked financial privilege as it overrode the Lords' amendments two weeks ago? As we've seen in the upper House this afternoon, not very well.
Comment
Comment: Cable's university coup threatens fairness
Cable's selection of Les Ebdon shows the balance has moved from fair access to positive discrimination.
Comment: Assad's brutality demands an effective embargo
A full economic embargo of Syria would bring the situation to a head, and prevent the Syrian people's suffering being prolonged.
Analysis
Analysis: One year after Libya, Syria is Britain's latest dilemma
Last year Britain committed its forces against a brutal regime tyrannising its people. Twelve months later, are we prepared to do it again?
Analysis: The council prayers debate
The ruling over prayers at Bideford town council brings no clarity to the issue of whether we live in a secular society or not.
Feature
Everything you need to know about the Arab Spring in 5 minutes
Everything you need to know about the revolutions which continue to shake the Middle East.
Rachel Reeves speech on 'balancing the books' in full
Here's the full text of shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves' first major speech, to the IPPR thinktank:
Sketch
PMQs sketch: Miliband and Cameron even after score-all draw
Cameron sets a trap for Miliband, but the Labour leader refuses to crawl in it.
PMQs sketch: Nowhere to hide for Cameron over his NHS reforms disaster
The government's NHS reforms are in critical condition. After today's roasting from an in-form Ed Miliband, surely even the spin doctors can't save them now.
Interviews
Interview: Mark Harper's Lords reform challenge
It is, perhaps, the hardest reform of them all. Can Mark Harper succeed where so many before him have failed?
Interview: John Street
politics.co.uk talks to John Street, author of Music and Politics, about Jimi Hendrix, Cool Britannia and why left-wingers have all the best songs.
Review
Review: The Iron Lady
Our review of the Margaret Thatcher biopic starring Meryl Streep.
Review: Three Days In May
A crisis on the continent which will affect Britain's future for years to come: 2011 is no 1940, but there are parallels nonetheless.
Opinion Formers
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Special event coverage
Festival of Social Sciences: Celebrating the Social Sciences
Evidence-based policy should not be a radical concept. It needs to be celebrated.
Festival of Social Sciences: 2 languages: 2 brains, 2 minds, 2 cultures?
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.
Opinion Former Events
bpas: Abortion in the US: Popularity, Politics and Practice
We often hear of the ‘Americanisation’ of abortion politics in the UK, but unpicking the substantive threats to women’s reproductive rights in the US can be a challenge. The 2012 bpas public lecture will explore the current state of abortion politics in the US and, at a time when abortion appears increasingly politicised in the UK, reflect on what lessons can be drawn by those keen to protect women’s reproductive autonomy elsewhere.
MRSA Action UK’s Annual General Meeting
MRSA Action UK will hold it’s Annual General Meeting on 17th March 2012. There are opportunities for members to be involved in shaping the way the Charity lobbies for improvement in our healthcare and help to raise awareness about healthcare infections and what we can do to stay well and reduce the risks of acquiring them.
Cogent SSC: UK Nuclear Skills Awards - 22nd March 2012
The UK Nuclear Awards is steadily becoming an anticipated annual event in the Nuclear calendar. The National Skills Academy for Nuclear and Cogent Sector Skills Council are preparing to hold their fourth collaborative Skills Awards Evening for the industry.
NASUWT Annual Conference 2012
Teachers, politicians and delegates will gather in Birmingham this Easter for the 2012 Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union.
BSIA: Information Destruction Exhibition and Conference
This one-day event is targeted at professionals operating in the information destruction industry, and aims at keeping delegates updated on recent developments in their sector, providing an opportunity to network with fellow professionals, whilst offering access to an informative exhibition and a comprehensive conference programme.
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