September 2011
IMF boss repeats call for Plan B
The IMF's boss has given her strongest warning yet that Britain should slow the pace of its spending cuts. She called for countries "to adjust their austerity programmes".
Safe in Cameron’s hands? Waiting times for treatments, tests, and A&E all up
With Parliament set to debate the Health Bill this week, new research shows 1.4 million waiting longer than the target times for treatment, diagnostics and A&E.
Clegg’s win on ‘free schools’ start of the battle to save state education
The vetoing of Tory plans for free schools to become profit-making marks out coalition dividing lines and the ideological battle over education at the next election.
Scottish Tory suicide is a gift to Salmond
Murdo Fraser, deputy leader of the Scottish Tories, is calling for the total disbandment of the Conservative party in Scotland. The SNP is delighted.
Nomination for most influential left-wing thinker of the year: Barack Obama
Although an increasingly unfashionable view, President Barack Obama has three reasons to stake a claim as the most influential left wing thinker of the year.
Baroness Williams: Coalition “bewitched by a flawed US system”
Shirley Williams still has "huge concerns" over the coalition's NHS reforms, and says ministers have been "bewitched" by the "flawed" US healthcare system.