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The Commission on Digital Democracy, set up by the Speaker of the House of Commons, published a report yesterday which makes recommendations about how technology can be used to make … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
"Richest 1% will own more than all the rest by 2016"—Oxfam, 19th January 2015 Oxfam released a report on Monday predicting that in 2016 over half the world's wealth will … Read
Europe
"80 per cent of Britons want to quit EU in biggest poll for 40 years." Daily Express, Wednesday 21 January The story on the front page of today's Express refers … Read
Health
This tweet from Labour's health team caught our eye: That's almost true — we've looked at the data for the NHS in England and we make it 61 weeks, not … Read
"There are 80 practising Sharia courts around the United Kingdom, and I've got no problem with different religions and different groups having their own private observance, but the law should … Read
"Media regulator Ofcom said it believed the Green party was not important enough to be included in the televised general election debates" - Huffington Post, 8 January 2015 An Ofcom … Read
Education
Several newspapers, as well as the BBC, have reported on comments made by the Chief Inspector of Schools in England, suggesting that he supports "positive discrimination" in recruiting teachers. Read
While most of Scroobius Pip’s guests on his Distraction Pieces podcast are celebrities, he also likes to interview people “that aren’t as famous but are very much worth our audience hearing”. When he Read
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post's Fact Checker, has written about the growth of factchecking around the world and what it means for politics and democracy. "Political fact-checking has thus become … Read
Health
"A&E waiting is worst for a decade". BBC News, 6 January 2015 This is right: figures published this morning showed that in the last three months of 2014, less than … Read
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