19 March, 2012 // Category: Education, Employment & Welfare
Parents of young children, currently hard-pressed to meet the £15,000 sometimes required to meet annual full-time childcare costs in the UK, might be surprised by a recent initiative from the soft-left grouplet Next Generation Labour. Next Generation Labour call for a '24 hour National Childcare...
07 January, 2012 // Category: Europe, Politics, The Right
Since New Year’s Day, Hungary is no longer officially a republic. Signs on the border crossings and all official documentation have been changed accordingly. The new constitution, with its talk of historical destiny and stated desire for continuity with Horthy-era Hungary, has been enacted in its...
27 July, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Europe, International
Hungary, 2010. A new conservative government comes to office with a radical, largely undeclared programme. It embarks on plans to ‘reform’ the public sector, involving massive numbers of redundancies in government, and one-sided changes to what it describes as an over-generous pension scheme....
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