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Week 47 check out new Home Footnotes Page Moving My Way 
The countdown to London's congestion-charge launch is now accompanied by calls for tolling to be extended to the M25. These partial measures will all end in tears. The only satisfactory solution is my scheme for a universal Daily Usage Charge.
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The penny has finally dropped
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check out new Home Footnotes Page Limiting Limited Liability Upon the collapse of ITV Digital its two promoters (parent companies Carlton and Granada) simply "walked away" and abandoned all the creditors of their own stricken subsidiary. Now International Power, the parent of the collapsing UK power-generator TXU, has similarly "walked away" - abandoning creditors owed £2.78 billion.
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Disarmed Speaking in Brussels ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Prague, NATO Secretary General George Robertson was scathing about the military investment programmes of NATO members. The problem, he claimed, was that NATO troops were not action-ready. He paints a horrifying picture of military and political ineptitude. check out new Home Footnotes Page
Workers’ Rights The assertion of "Union" rights is not a popular cause. But the development of stronger systems of workers' rights strikes a chord with everyone. And as a socialist, I am more interested in workers’ rights than in union rights. What do you think? back to top check out new Home Footnotes Page Wonderful Water Good, positive news about solutions to impending water shortages in the Middle East - a little good news, for a change... back to top check out new Home Footnotes Page Walwyn-Jones & Mendoza This is the House of Lords case which decided last week - establishing that a statutory residential tenancy could be taken over as of right by the same-sex partner of a deceased statutory tenant. Gay campaigners made much of the "precedent" - but that was much overstated...
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The full text of the Government's Criminal Justice Bill has now been published, and debated in the Lords. It is a nasty, autocratic, measure. It is designed to whittle away the shield which English law has traditionally thrown around "the accused", changing the balance of judicial procedure still further. For the accused - all accused - it would become much more difficult to contend with the natural autocracy of the Police and the prosecuting authorities. The scales of justice would be changed irreversibly in favour of the "Prosecution". The Bill would make our society a nastier, more vicious, more unjust place to live. As with many Government proposals, it contains many potential tactical "concessions", and only a truncated Bill will reach the statute book. But if passed in its present form, it would strengthen the State against the citizen, critically destabilise our system of criminal justice, give rein to communal prejudices of all kinds, and lead to the unjust punishment of many more innocent people. check out new Home Footnotes Page Burning injustice 
The Firefighters' dispute, running in parallel with the remuneration scandals of City remuneration, have triggered another orgy of public resentment over the injustice of personal rewards. These outbursts are a periodic feature of our media lives, never reaching any considered conclusion. But in restraining the scandal of corporate greed and dishonesty, there is much that we could do. thanks to BBC News for the blazing pic... Labour's  David Walker, writing in
The
Guardian on Wednesday is entirely right to
challenge Labour's concept of localism. But he reaches, the wrong
conclusion, paradoxically reinforcing by, the case for the destructive over-centralisation
which we are currently experiencing. Like many denizens of the
capital, I suspect he has simply missed the
point. The problem is
that Labour's version of localism is deeply flawed. True localism has
nothing to do with "earned autonomy", whether conceived
in No 10 or No 11 Downing Street. It means being entitled to do what
you wish to do, within however limited a compass.
Don't top-up, pay up Financial crisis stalks our universities. This issue poses a real challenge to your political judgment. For on the one hand, it must be common ground that graduates benefit enormously, personally and financially, from the successful completion of higher education. But that does not make it wise to present all future students with the prospect of a huge lifetime debt... What do you think? back to top Foundation Hospitals This confused debate is leading nowhere. Alan Milburn is bidding to pioneer an important new idea for the management of public services generally. But he is wrong to limit the idea to a small number of Foundation Hospitals - he should apply the principle to all hospitals... Where do you stand? back to top |
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Is Gordon Brown
using the top-up fee issue to define and stake out his leadership bid? Jonathan Freedland thinks so, writing
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My daughter Katharine,