This is a really interesting read ...

http://www.guerillapolicy.org/guerilla-policy/2013/03/25/if-borrowing-is-up-but-services-are-being-cut-where-is-our-money-going/

I just remembered the article in the Independent from a couple of weeks ago about the big increase in drug resistance bacteria.

The Department of Health is due to publish the UK Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy this week.

Let's hope it contains resolutions to move at least some antibiotic research into public development.

DCLG funds Public Service Revolutionaries. No, it is is NOT April 1st…

The ConDem government’s plan to, in effect, engineer a state-financed, speculative housing boom in a bid to stimulate expansion, sums up the increasingly desperate state of both the economy and the political classes.

So much so that a leading Tory commentator suggests that yesterday’s Budget signals the absolute inability of representative democracy to tackle the crisis. A Coalition brought together to tackle the budget deficit and restore some…

Here's one for the archives - Urban Forum's last policy roundup.



Another Voluntary Sector organisation bids the community its last hurrah!

Policy Round-Up…

Today’s forlorn protest by the TUC designed to put “pressure on chancellor George Osborne to change course” as he puts his final touches to next week’s budget will fall on deaf ears.

Prime minister Cameron last week insisted that the austerity…

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In Brussels, the old order is trembling at the prospect of Greece being thrown out of the euro and Italy – if Beppe Grillo had its way – deciding to quit the single currency. Giles Merritt from EU think-tank Friends of Europe said Brussels could handle old-style politicians like Silvia Berlusconi. Grillo really worried them, he added, because it was a “protest against the entire system, and they are afraid it is spreading to other countries”. He’s not wrong there.

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Bedroom Tax - Quids In! Magazine

Underoccupancy or "The Bedroom Tax". Picture. The…

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