Karen Buck MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Young People responding to the Barnardo’s Report on the 16-19 Bursary Fund

The former foreign secretary's blueprint to help a lost generation must be taken seriously, says Mary Riddell.

I've blogged before about rising anti-mainland sentiment in Hong Kong. Ministry of Tofu has a nice run down of events since then, including the intervention of professor Kong Qingdong, a 63rd (I think) generation descendent of Confucious, who called Hong...

Ask any number of your office colleagues and the answer is bound to be the same: British workers are facing tougher, longer hours than ever before.

Jack Dromey MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Minister, responding to Grant Shapps speech, said:

Jack Dromey MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Minister, responding to new figures released by the National Housing Federation which reveal that almost two million people are languishing on council house waiting lists whilst at the same time less than 45,000 new homes being built each year, said:

The Scottish government is to unveil how it will tackle youth unemployment which is at its highest for a generation.

They were drawn in by the promise of change and are now saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of debt! College students voted en masse for Barack Obama in 2008, drawn in by his smooth delivery and promises of change that the American public could believe in. For many the 2012 presidential election will be a different story as this new Debt Generation faces the massive growth of the US national...

While people from every generation tend to say the same thing, the world today definitely seems much more unstable with many more flash-points than existed when I was growing up! Today's examples with links to relevant external news sources: Pakistan: Our "friends" the Pakistanis are currently involved in an internal feud between the military and the civilian government that some believe coul...

Jon Trickett MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, responding to Nick Clegg's Business Compact announcement on social mobility today, said: