Archive of articles from 2010

Unison: 'Some Christmas present'

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Alexander: The cost of Osborne's experiment

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Comment: The localism bill empowers us to build the big society

Cllr David Shakespeare OBE is the leader of the LGA Conservative group and the leader of Buckinghamshire county council

New powers and freedoms will give both councillors and the people they represent a greater say over how their services are run.

Comment: Predictions of the coalition's early demise are a fantasy

This government will last until 2015... probably.

HMS Lib Dem is springing leaks and listing badly, but commentators should know better than to predict the annihilation of a political party five years out from a general election.

Comment: Making school access fair

Mark Lancaster is the Conservative MP for Milton Keynes North

The current system of school admissions is a mess which sees children forced into becoming juvenile commuters.

Dorrell: 'Unprecendented' savings

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Healey: Lansley's 'rogue department'

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Comment: Tackling the problem of gyspy and traveller sites

Gavin Williamson is the Conservative MP for South Staffordshire

A lamentable record on regulating gypsy and traveller sites is only just being overturned. But it may be too late to assuage growing anger over the issue.

BMA: £2bn further shortfall

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Comment: NHS funding gap needs urgent action

Dr Hamish Meldrum is the chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) council

Health spending may be ringfenced, but the huge costs of the government's reorganisation and a shortfall in funding could lead to cuts in frontline services.

Pickles: Doing more with less

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LGA: Frontloading cuts will lead to job losses

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Flint: Cuts make localism pledge 'hollow'

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Unite: A smokescreen for job losses

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Sketch: Ed Miliband shakes his kaleidoscope

Wikipedia tells us a kaleidoscope is 'a tube of mirrors containing loose, colored objects such beads or pebbles and bits of glass'

Sketch: Ed Miliband shakes his kaleidoscope

Comment: The coalition is stalling on equality

Preethi Sundaram is policy and campaigns officer at the Fawcett Society

The government's decision to shelve key parts of the Equality Act sets back the cause of equal pay.

Video: Tuition fee protest footage

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Cameron: 'Appalling' behaviour will feel full force of the law

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Porter: Students have 'won the argument'

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Clegg: Policy 'will stand the test of time'

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Met: Nothing to do with peaceful protest

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Comment: Time to get serious with Israel

Sandra Osborne is the Labour MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock

There remain shocking human rights abuses in the West Bank.

Comment: The betrayal of higher education

Yesterday's vote saw MPs put political calculation far above the future for students - which now appears grim indeed.

Comment: Campaign spending poses more questions than answers

Campaign spending poses more questions than answers

New figures have revealed a seat-by-seat breakdown of election spending. It doesn't take long to unearth some interesting results.

Parliament protest in pictures

A policeman reacts to one of the skirmishes on Whitehall

See our correspondent's dramatic pictures of the tuition fees protest.

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