Jackie Long
The unexpected costs of the ‘welfare revolution’
If the government’s “welfare revolution” is to work , then it has to work in places like Torfaen, a south Wales community where direct payments are being trialled.
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FactCheck Q&A: squeezed middle or smacked bottom?
The “cost of living crisis” is a key plank of Labour’s election strategy. But should we really be worrying about Britain’s middle-income households?
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Is grand prix a lose-lose race for Bahrain’s royal family?
Bahrain’s royal family faces a lose-lose situation ahead of the grand prix: cancel it and lose face, or let it proceed and become a hook for adverse media coverage, writes activist Dr Ala’a Shehabi.
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Jackie Long
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Government moves towards ‘plain’ packaging for cigarettes
The government says it wants to change the law to force the tobacco giants to introduce standardised packaging before the end of this parliament.
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FactCheck: Clegg/Farage – the lies to look out for
Clegg/Farage round two is almost upon us. Cut through the spin with FactCheck’s guide to the truth about Europe and immigration.
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Seeing the future: Met Office unveils new winter forecasts
A new long-range forecasting system, unveiled today by the Met Office, has shown an advance in the accuracy of predicting weather for European and North American winters.
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Scientists challenge work of climate change dissenter
With other academics hotly challenging his input into the ongoing debate about the likely effects of climate change, Professor Richard Tol tells Channel 4 News: “I’m an independent counsel”.
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Fruit and veg: seven portions better than five
We are all used to being told we should eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. Now researchers say this may not be enough.
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‘We live in an era of man-made climate change’ – IPCC
Much of the world remains unprepared for the mounting threats of the changing climate, a major international report warns.
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Jackie Long
Now Atos is judged unfit for fit-to-work tests, what next?
Atos is to pull out of a contract to carry out fit-to-work tests early, and will pay a financial settlement as a result. But the company clearly feels it is not the only guilty party.
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Should Labour be doffing its welfare cap to IDS? – FactCheck
Iain Duncan Smith has been on the airwaves justifying the welfare cap, claiming he’s stopping Labour’s out-of-control spending. Is he justified?
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All aboard? Women make up one fifth of FTSE 100 boards
Women account for a fifth of FTSE 100 board members, a report from Cranfield University finds, three years after former trade minister Lord Davies challenged business to pursue gender equality.
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Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband accused of ‘inertia’ as real earnings turn corner
With inflation at 1.7 per cent and average private sector earnings at 1.7 per cent growth, are we turning a corner and what will that mean for a Labour campaign locked on to the cost of living crisis?
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Fears over using statins could cost lives, warns expert
A leading medical expert on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs accuses critics of misleading the public about the dangers of their use.
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FactCheck: Work Programme still under pressure to prove its worth
The government’s back-to-work programme is praised by ministers but damned as a failure by the unions. FactCheck referees.
