The gulf between the rich and the poor
I feel I experienced a strange and unnerving weekend in the aftermath of the violence of student demonstration. There’s a gulf out there the scale of which we may not have seen in our lifetimes, any of us.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the wealthier people in society to shoulder their load in the economic downturn in his Christmas Day sermon.
The former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mark Malloch Brown, remembers his friend – the veteran US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who died yesterday.
Veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who was President Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has died at the age of 69. Sarah Smith looks back at the life of the “foreign policy giant”.
I feel I experienced a strange and unnerving weekend in the aftermath of the violence of student demonstration. There’s a gulf out there the scale of which we may not have seen in our lifetimes, any of us.
Prince William, David Cameron and David Beckham fly to Zurich to try and boost England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup – but hopes have been dampened by the latest publication of bribery allegations.
FactCheck has seen some some excellent number-crunching by the Institute for Fiscal Studies of the government’s proposals which found that the rich will be better off than they would have been if ministers had adopted Lord Browne’s recommendations.
In his spending review, Chancellor Osborne said distributional analysis shows richest pay most when you look at “entire fiscal consolidation” – that’s all tax, spend and welfare decisions starting, I presume, with the last government, blogs Gary Gibbon.
George Osborne claims the coalition’s first budget is progressive, but the IFS thinks otherwise.
Jonathan Rugman blogs on Kurdistan’s growing confidence in its economic future as questions remain about Iraq’s political deadlock in Baghdad.
Will the Conservative policy on inheritance tax only benefit 3,000 millionaires? FactCheck finds out.
Samira Ahmed reports for Channel 4 News on her home constituency of Richmond Park, south west London, where the campaign has centred on a certain non-dom Tory candidate.
Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, makes the claim that children born in the poorest neighbourhoods in his constituency of Sheffield will die 14 years earlier than those born in a more affluent neighbouring area. FactCheck took a look at it.
Another candidate is about to enter the Speaker’s contest. Tory backbencher Richard Shepherd is throwing his hat in the ring. He is proposing that he should be interim Speaker. He thinks the new parliament, with potentially half the MPs new to the place, should get to choose whoever it wants. Labour MPs in big numbers…
At least 8% of the adult population in Wales now has diabetes, the highest estimated prevalence rate of the four UK nations. The rate of new diabetes registrations, mostly Type 2, continues to astound.
We speak to pollster and political strategist Cornell Belcher.