Archive for the ‘Public finance articles’ Category
The trouble they’ve (not yet) seen
Posted by: melissabenn on: September 17, 2010
Read Melissa Benn’s latest piece in Public Finance magazine on the looming protests against Coalition policies.
Free Schools: not for turning.
Posted by: melissabenn on: August 27, 2010
Below, an amended version of Melissa Benn’s latest blog on the Public Finance website So it looks like only a handful of Free Schools will be opening in 2011, and some high profile projects like Toby Young’s West London Free School might be delayed for a year or two. Following on from the PR disasters [...]
Thinking the unthinkable
Posted by: melissabenn on: June 30, 2010
Frank Field’s feckless fathers, by Melissa Benn Posted in: PF blog 11:09 am, 30 June 2010 | Melissa Benn For as long as I can remember, Frank Field has been thinking the unthinkable. Now part of David Cameron’s cost-cutting team, some old ideas are being re-cycled in a new supposedly culturally and politically sensitive form. [...]
Not new but next….
Posted by: melissabenn on: May 18, 2010
My latest post from Public Finance. – with a little bit added! It’s official: New Labour is no more. We have it on the word of one of the previous government’s sharpest political brains, former Foreign Secretary David Miliband, the first to throw his hat into the ring for the party leadership. With his trademark [...]
On Burma and Bigotgate……..
Posted by: melissabenn on: April 29, 2010
Read Melissa Benn’s latest pieces on the web. Further comment on ‘bigotgate’ in Public Finance, and a piece on one of Burma’s most celebrated activists, the poet and comedian Zarganar, recently sentenced to thirty five years for criticising the government’s handling of cyclone Nargis in 2008, on the Guardian’s Liberty Central section of Comment is [...]
Something to believe in…
Posted by: melissabenn on: April 7, 2010
….or is it? Am I being too optimistic in my latest post- more of a note – in Public Finance? You tell me. But the Labour manifesto, as drafted by Ed Miliband, and much discussed, even derided, in recent weeks, seems to contain some very good things. Now if only there had been more about [...]
Goldie and Toby’s laugh-in
Posted by: melissabenn on: February 16, 2010
Read Melissa Benn’s latest comment piece in today’s Independent. and on a similar theme, read her latest blog on the Public Finance website.
Read all about it…
Posted by: melissabenn on: January 30, 2010
Below, three links to Melissa’s latest journalism: * Opinion piece in this week’s Public Finance on why neither party can win the class war. * An in depth interview in The Guardian today with Mary Foley, an extraordinary woman, who has forgiven her daughter’s killer. * A review in this week’s New Statesman on Kate [...]
Save our local everything!
Posted by: melissabenn on: July 23, 2009
Read Melissa Benn’s first post on the new Public Finance website: If a tired Labour government, 12 years in, struggles to develop a credible vision to sell to the voters, the Conservatives seem to have hit on a rich and popular idea that I am sure we will hear more of as the election edges [...]
Playing catch up
Posted by: melissabenn on: July 4, 2009
It might be too early to call, but the rather bold education white paper, published this week, looks like giving Labour a surprise lead in the political battle over public service reform. Only a week ago, the idea of a fresh vision from Labour on any policy area was being belittled by a largely cynical [...]
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