By fighting our library’s closure, we’ve shown how communities can work together and achieve extraordinary thing Email Marika Giles Samson guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 May 2012 09.00 BST ‘The library is where we take our babies to look for their first books, where our children can study in safety, where our grandparents bump into their neighbours.’ Photograph:…Read more
The real mistake was not getting the forecast wrong, but getting the economics wrong. Look back to the last recessio Jonathan Portes guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 May 2012 10.00 BS ‘Norman Lamont said that he would not raise taxes or cut spending right away, thus allowing the recovery to take hold.’ Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian…Read more
The spirit of the haves towards the have-nots is reliably ungenerous but otherwise incohesive, mixing resignation at the general level with agitation at the local The Guardian, Wednesday 25 April 2012 The poor are always with us – just so long as they’re not with us right here. The spirit of the haves towards the…Read more
The prime minister must act decisively on unhealthy eating and poor nutrition EditorialThe Observer, Sunday 22 April 2012 Michael Gove has already committed one controversial act, with regard to children’s health, by dismantling the network of school sports co-ordinators that had increased the amount of exercise undertaken by pupils – a simple and inexpensive response…Read more
Economic recovery demands we ditch the myth that private rather than state investment drives industrial innovation Seumas Milne guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 March 2012 22.20 GMT Illustration by Belle Mellor Shut your eyes and it’s as if the last 30 years never happened. David Cameron and George Osborne are taking us straight back to the 1980s.…Read more
So a computer whizz thinks he knows what the worst thing about the internet is. Has he never seen a Twitter feud? Hadley Freeman guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 6 March 2012 20.30 GMT Miley Cyrus: thanks to Twitter, we’re up to date with her relationship problems. Photograph: Steve Granitz/WireImage Happy 20th birthday, email! Next week –…Read more
By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Nick Clegg: Youth jobs situation “a real crisis” Firms quit work experience scheme Young jobless reach record level Youth dropout blackspots mapped Firms and charities are to be invited to bid for a payment-by-results scheme to try to get “Neet” teenagers into work or training, in a…Read more
By fighting our library’s closure, we’ve shown how communities can work together and achieve extraordinary thing Email Marika Giles Samson guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 May 2012 09.00 BST ‘The library is where we take our babies to look for their first books, where our children can study in safety, where our grandparents bump into their neighbours.’ Photograph:…Read more
The real mistake was not getting the forecast wrong, but getting the economics wrong. Look back to the last recessio Jonathan Portes guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 May 2012 10.00 BS ‘Norman Lamont said that he would not raise taxes or cut spending right away, thus allowing the recovery to take hold.’ Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian…Read more
The spirit of the haves towards the have-nots is reliably ungenerous but otherwise incohesive, mixing resignation at the general level with agitation at the local The Guardian, Wednesday 25 April 2012 The poor are always with us – just so long as they’re not with us right here. The spirit of the haves towards the…Read more
The prime minister must act decisively on unhealthy eating and poor nutrition EditorialThe Observer, Sunday 22 April 2012 Michael Gove has already committed one controversial act, with regard to children’s health, by dismantling the network of school sports co-ordinators that had increased the amount of exercise undertaken by pupils – a simple and inexpensive response…Read more
Economic recovery demands we ditch the myth that private rather than state investment drives industrial innovation Seumas Milne guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 March 2012 22.20 GMT Illustration by Belle Mellor Shut your eyes and it’s as if the last 30 years never happened. David Cameron and George Osborne are taking us straight back to the 1980s.…Read more
So a computer whizz thinks he knows what the worst thing about the internet is. Has he never seen a Twitter feud? Hadley Freeman guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 6 March 2012 20.30 GMT Miley Cyrus: thanks to Twitter, we’re up to date with her relationship problems. Photograph: Steve Granitz/WireImage Happy 20th birthday, email! Next week –…Read more
By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Nick Clegg: Youth jobs situation “a real crisis” Firms quit work experience scheme Young jobless reach record level Youth dropout blackspots mapped Firms and charities are to be invited to bid for a payment-by-results scheme to try to get “Neet” teenagers into work or training, in a…Read more
