By Emily Pearce County Press Thursday, January 22, 2015 Cllr Ian Stephens, who quit as Isle of Wight Council leader, has said he will stand as an independent MP in the General Election. Picture by…Read more…
The 7 Deadly Myths that control the world economy…
Global Justice Now has done a great job in highlighting the 7 arguments that are presented as the deepest wisdom by Global Leaders on why the world economy is the way it is. Like a force of nature or…Read more…
Home care workers. Caring, professional and treated like shit
My Dad, who died 18 months back, had home care help in the last years of his illness. My Mum moved mountains to keep him at home, where he needed to be, but what she achieved simply wouldn’t have…Read more…
While the ECB print money, was ex-Governor Lord King calling for fiscal stimulus in the UK?
On Monday evening at the London School of Economics, Lord King, former Governor of the Bank of England, and Sir Alan Budd, former chief economist at HM Treasury and a founder member of the Monetary Policy Committee, had ‘a conversation about central banking’ with Professor Charles Goodhart in the…Read more…
Tory plans to restrict the right to strike have been widely condemned
22 January 2015
By Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC
Plans to place restrict the extreme restrictions on the right to strike are not consistent with international legal standards, write Keith…Read more…
UNISON Housing Association AGM 2015: London Assembly City Hall
The branch AGM is taking place at the London Assembly City Hall on Tuesday 17 February 2015 – 6pm to 8.30pm.
The theme of the meeting will be about “rights at work”.
City Hall is a wonderful and iconic modern London building, over looking the Thames…Read more…
Most of Leipzig turn out to oppose fascists and right-wing:
Anti-fascist people mobilise against fascists over the last couple of days. They shall not pass! It is reported that the districts of Leipzig in Germany tonight emptied as anti-fascist residents…Read more…
Harry Leslie Smith on defending the NHS
91 year old Harry Leslie Smith remembers the time before the NHS when his sister suffered from TB and had to go into the workhouse hospital to die. Read more…
Message of support to Our West Hendon and People Power West Hendon groups fighting the compulsory purchase and evictions in West Hendon
I’m writing to send my support to your campaign and efforts in resisting the compulsory purchase of, and eviction from, your homes in West Hendon. The actions of Barnet Council are deplorable….Read more…
We need to do more to recognise and facilitate growth and career development
David Weston is the founder and Chief Executive of the Teacher Development Trust. CPD isn’t a luxury add-on to the work of teaching, it is an absolutely central element of being a professional. The…Read more…
Getting excited about CPD reminds us why we chose to do this job
Ellie Dix is the Director of Pivotal Education. CPD for teachers is a necessity. When CPD works well, it is genuinely useful and can make a huge difference not just to the practice of an individual…Read more…
Today’s employment figures (Jan 2015)
I have a post up at Left Foot Forward, looking at today’s labour market statistics. What seems to be happening is that the quality of employment is improving, but the increases in employment and falls in unemployment are slowing down. The prospects for earnings are still quite poor: at the…Read more…
Next meeting Tuesday 17 February 2015
A date for your diary.
Next meeting Tuesday 17 February 2015 at 8pm.Venue TBA
Greg Hadfield will be talking about how he came to be involved in Brighton & Hove Independent with a vision of…Read more…
Budget blues
The consequences of austerity economics dominate budget setting at UK, Scottish and local authority level.
The Budget Bill was presented to the Scottish Parliament this week. Over five years the…Read more…
100 claimants with mental health problems have their benefits stopped every day
Figures obtained by the Methodist Church from the Department of Work and Pensions have revealed that claimants thought to be unfit for work due to mental health problems are disproportionately and increasingly likely to have their benefits stopped under sanctions. The DWP’s own figures show that in…Read more…
Mutually incompatible
At the end of November the Government announced that nine English NHS Trusts had been selected for the Mutuals in Health: Pathfinder programme – described in a UNISON briefing as ‘part of the…Read more…
Democracy Day: “Have you voted yet? Nah… There’s gonna be a Peoples’ Revolution any minute…”
Today is “Democracy Day” the 750 anniversary of the first ever Parliament in Westminster. There was a fascinating debate on Radio 4 “Today” this morning which resulted in sparks between young and old about feelings of disenfranchisement and accusations…Read more…
Michael Gove’s ideological vandalism of the education system
Friday, January 10, 2014 In January 2014 I felt compelled to write an article criticising Michael Gove’s confirmation bias riddled historical revisionism, after he made a number of absurd…Read more…
New NHS Workers’ Strike:
NHS workers in England will be taking strike action on Thursday 29 January for 12 hours from 9am to 9pm in protest at the Government imposed pay freeze. Ambulance workers will take action 12 noon to…Read more…
£1billion a year essential for new flood defences
£1billion a year must be spent on flood defences over the next decade to cope with the rising threat of flooding, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and campaigners like Friends of the Earth. In a new initiative, they argue for an end to building new homes in flood-risk areas,…Read more…