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Race against time: Campaigners fight clocks going back
By Alex Stevenson An MP’s proposed bill to stop the clocks going back is gathering “enormous” cross-party support, Rebecca Harris has claimed. The Conservative MP for Castle Point is hoping to make British Summer Time permanent in a bid to shift an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. Her private member’s bill… Read more »
Comment: The overcooked big society
The coalition government has been dreaming up recipes for democracy: two spoonfuls of AV, a dash of participation here and a drizzle of direct management there. And the result? Cook it yourself, proclaims the government. Take power! Seize the cookbook! Make your own society! And make it a ‘big society’! By Rebecca Burns David Cameron’s… Read more »
Interview: Elizabeth Truss
Elizabeth Truss has finally found her place in politics. After a scenic tour of political ideology that took in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Liberal Democrats, the new MP has at long last won herself the safe seat of Norfolk South West – as a Conservative. By Rebecca Burns “I was a… Read more »
Analysis: The Lords’ past, present and future
Does the unelected House of Lords still deserve its privileged position in British politics? By Rebecca Burns Following the government’s announcement that change is on its way, business in the House of Lords is rather existential at the moment. The Lords has been forced to establish exactly why it exists. So the chamber has been… Read more »
Union ‘outrage’ at head teachers who earn more than PM
By Rebecca Burns Head teachers are earning more money than the prime minister, an investigation by the GMB Union has revealed. The GMB’s research uncovered 11 London-based head teachers whose salary exceeds £150,000, compared to Mr Cameron’s newly-trimmed wage of £142,500. One primary school head teacher, Mark Elms of Tidemill Primary School in Lewisham, received… Read more »
Interview: George Eustice
The press secretary for David Cameron during his Tory leadership campaign has just won himself his very own seat in parliament. But going from media guru to local agony aunt, George Eustice should feel right at home in his new constituency role. By Rebecca Burns He is MP for an area that his family have… Read more »
Blair urged to do more to reduce emissions
Despite Tony Blair’s prioritisation of climate change on the international agenda, individual domestic policies are not leading to carbon emission reductions. According to a new report by the environmental think-tanks Green Alliance and the Institute for European Environmental Policy the EU’s emission trading scheme, which established a market in permits to emit carbon dioxide, does… Read more »
