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The unofficial pre-general election campaign got under way
this week with both Labour and the Conservatives targeting specific groups,
suggesting that social care could have a more visible presence over the months
ahead. Read More...
Cuts and welfare have dominated the news this week - and I
fear this is more than a coincidence. Read More...
In an admittedly
superficial experiment to put myself in the position of a potential settler on
these shores, I took the UK citizenship test . I failed and should be deported
immediately. Read More...
It was less the night of the long knives, more the day of
the long, white envelopes as ministers queued to hand their resignation letters
to prime minister Gordon Brown. Read More...
The number of asylum claimants in the UK rose by 27% in the
first three months of 2009 to more than 8,300. Read More...
My thanks to the blogsite Liberal Conspiracy for drawing my
attention to the predictable rant about teenage mothers made by, less
predictably, a Labour MP. Read More...
It is an appalling indictment on our (mythical) meritocracy
that we are less socially mobile today than we were in the 1950s, the era of gentlemen's clubs, secret handshakes and bowler hats. Read More...
Any Labour voter who says they pay little attention to
opinion polls should perhaps revise that view on account of some disturbing
findings in The Independent this morning. Read More...
Every now and then Labour comes up with scheme so
hare-brained that it insults the people the party purports to support and plays
into the hands of the Conservatives. Read More...
The Daily Mail called it "the day New Labour died" ; The
Guardian saw it as a "gamble" . Whichever you prefer, chancellor Alistair
Darling yesterday made clear his intention to protect those most in need during
this economic downturn...
What was immigration minister Phil Woolas thinking when
he derided the charities and lawyers who try to help the dwindling number of
asylum claimants? "Playing the system" was how he indelicately put it. Read More...
So pleased was I to read an article headlined "Social
mobility on the rise" that I felt compelled to find out when it was last not
"on the rise". Read More...
So she bottled it. Hours after details of her speech to the
TUC yesterday appeared in the national press, Labour's deputy leader, Harriet
Harman, avoided using the c-word that was long ago excised from her party's lexicon. Read More...
You know you've arrived as care services minister when your
name appears on the front page of a Sunday tabloid. Read More...
Anyone who thinks Labour is social care's best chance should
be worried by the recent less-than-inspiring efforts of chancellor Alistair Darling and home secretary Jacqui Smith . Read More...