The Confederation of British Industry is the British umbrella business group that represents a wide swathe of British business and lobbies Parliament on behalf of it. The head of the CBI, John Cridland, has recently gone on record as unbraiding his members. Firms benefitting from the economic recovery should pay their workers more, he says. …
The gap in test scores between rich and poor children is 30-40% wider than it was 25 years ago: given that the distribution of innate intelligence is unlikely to have shifted so much in one generation, it suggests that rich youngsters are benefitting more than ever from their economic and social advantages. Measures of social …
Serco, the giant outsourcing company, which runs everything in the UK from ferries to prisons, railways to civil-service payrolls, is in turmoil. After 25 years of extraordinary growth, the company that has become ubiquitous in British public life, delivering services for the Government in hospitals, Army bases and job centres, is threatening to come unstuck. …
There is now a growing appetite, caused by the euro crisis, for reform of both governance and the operations of the EU. This is just as well, because something needs to be done urgently to head off the little-Englanders from their idiotic determination to quit the EU. The US has its Tea Party, the UK …
Uruguay has become the first country to legalise the cultivation, distribution and consumption of cannabis. The government-sponsored legislation will come into force in April. From then citizens who are over 18 will be able to register as cannabis users, buy up to 40g per month of the drug from licensed pharmacies, snd be allowed to …
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