Happy news for the Camerons this week, with the birth of their fourth child, daughter Florence Rose Endelion. And they are in good company - the NHS recently released figures showing an increase in the number of pregnant women with babies due in the next few weeks. Hospitals usually see a rise in births in August and September, nine months after the Christmas season brings couples time at...
The NTA’s poor and unfair practices mean it cannot be trusted. This £19 million a year public health authority should be wound down now, not in two years time.
It is bad enough when we find...
The news that the new (compulsory) German ID card will be RFID equipped (International Business Times, 21 August) is a considerable step towards fulfilling John McCarthy of Stanford's remark 40 years ago that the solution to the problem of crime was the Government knowing where each of us is at all times.
The German government will now be able to do exactly that any time it chooses by...
It’s education fortnight here in Westminster. A bumper crop of A-levels (again); David Willetts apologised to those pupils caught in an intense scramble for clearing places; and there’s more to come with GCSE results next week.
Social mobility has also been a recurring theme. Education editors pointed out, as they do each year, that those from private schools...
The Home Office is keen to resurrect the idea of using the benefit system to nudge drug and alcohol users into seeking and completing courses of treatment. In a consultancy exercise, they ask a serious question of 'partners', carefully balancing carrot and stick.
(a) some form of financial benefit sanction, if...
