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Welcome to my Politics and Economy Scoop. It is a fairly generic mix of articles, gathered through twitter, the blogs I follow and suggestions from the Scoop.it curation tool, that catch my attention as interesting to me and possibly other people. Some scoops may not seem to be related to either politics or the economy but there is often a link - some are just less obvious than others! You can use the filter option just above this introduction to search for a particular topic within the numerous articles collated here.
Nick Miller is the CEO of Parking Panda — a service that enables parking space owners (both individuals and commercial lots) to capitalize on underutilized parking spaces by renting them to a community of drivers.
Via jean lievens
I cannot be the only person with personal experience of managing schools whose jaw dropped at reading the headlines of the Reform report launched last week: Must Do Better: Spending on Schools.
Via Arthur Jordan
Another of Iain Duncan Smith's flagship welfare reforms is to face a court challenge it has been reported this week. Four families are to bring a judicial review against the cap on benefits at £50...
Via britishroses
What is going to happen when the greatest economic bubble in the history of the world pops? The mainstream media never talks about that. They are much too.
“The economy can't recover until housing recovers. Housing can't recover until people can afford to buy houses. People can't afford to buy houses until they can get jobs, and those with jobs can't afford to buy houses until ...
San Francisco Chronicle Jobs, housing data show economy has some muscle Reuters Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers that a decision to scale back the $85 billion in bonds the U.S.
The surge in Japanese long-term interest rates is likely causing some lost sleep among bond market participants and policymakers (despite their ignorance of the moves in the BoJ minutes) as Nomura's Richard Koo notes, ...
In the midst of the coldest spring in 30 years, the government offers advice on coping with days of balmy summer With Britain enduring hailstones, temperatures below 10C and records revealing the UK's "worst" spring for 30 years, Public Health...
I sat and listened to Big 4 accountants saying how dangerous and misleading country-by-country reporting would be this afternoon – although I can’t say where.
Join us for tonight's panel discussion on drug laws with David Simon, writer of The Wire, documentary maker Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Seifert, British director of Cocaine Unwrapped and others at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
The Woolwich attack was something pretty exceptional, an extraordinarily foul deed for which there are few, if any, precise precedents Sometimes the old labels are simply not adequate to a new situation.
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Annie Powell is a governor at a Southwark school Last month the body that represents London’s 33 local authorities issued the government with a stark warning: without additional funds, councils will soon be unable to guarantee a permanent school...
As one of the school’s scholarship exam questions shows, young boys are encouraged to think that humanity, compassion, even sense are secondary to winning.
Via britishroses
More than 30 of the coalition's flagship schemes, including the West Coast Main Line scheme, are at serious risk of failure, a government report warns.
Police attacked and cars torched in Stockholm suburbs as unrest sparked by long-term youth unemployment and poverty spreads
Surging nominal imports and a miss for exports just about sums up perfectly just how the reality of Abenomics is crushing the real economy as the market goes from strength to strength on the hope that recovery is just around ...
Telling Conservatives to stop playing games is rich from someone distracting the coalition from addressing the deficit Nick Clegg's lecture to Conservative MPs was far from helpful.
Sky News Australia Australia: Losing 'know-how' economy?
Jeremy Hunt discusses proposals to rewrite GPs' contracts on Thursday in a speech at the King's Fund in London
New calculations released by Department for Education will boost those seeking to push stalled plans through The cost of childcare could be cut by as much as 28% if the government was to go ahead with stalled plans to raise ratios of children to...
Len McCluskey denies any "breach of party rules" over his union's strategy in seeking to influence Labour party panel selections (Mandelson's argument is about politics not procedure, 21 May).
• Sports minister wants to accelerate change at FA and beyond • Game's response to governance failings has been inadequate The government has issued a stark final warning to football, making it clear that it is already drawing up legislation in an...
How happy would a future US president be to see Russia, China or any of the other 76 states who have acquired drones, follow the CIA's example?
Hundreds of disabled workers brought traffic to a complete standstill in central London after scrapping speeches to protest.
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