New Open Europe report: EU social policy costs the UK £8.6bn a year<BR>

EU social policy costs UK business and public sector £8.6bn a year

A former chief economist at the Cabinet Office has accused the Chancellor of causing lasting social and economic damage to the UK because of a refusal to ease austerity in the short-term.

Country will buckle under more austerity, rightwing Laos party leader, George Karatzaferis, tells the European Union in plea over bail-out terms

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, said in response to the Royal College of Psychiatrists opposition to the Health and Social Care Bill:

Social networks can act as a catalyst to help direct democracy prevail over current economic and political monopolies, writes Viktor Tkachuk from the "People First" organisation in Ukraine. More »

This week's EU summit has again illustrated that austerity continues to be Berlin’s only response to the crisis, ignoring social issues and a rising tide of euroscepticism and anti-German feelings among the population, writes Susanne Gratius from Madrid-based think-tank FRIDE. More »

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, in a speech to the Centre for Social Justice, Rethinking mental health in the twenty-first century, said: This is my first major policy speech since returning to the Health brief and I was clear from the moment I came back that I wanted it to be about mental health. That's because, since my time as Secretary of State was so rudely interr...

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, in a speech to the Centre for Social Justice, said:

As regular readers here know, immigration is an issue that even people who are libertarians - or who say they are (often an important caveat) - disagree about. The nub of the issue can be expressed thus: immigration+welfare state+weak indigenous culture = social discord. Or: immigration+free market capitalism+strong sense of civil society = strong, dynamic country. Over at the CATO think tank in W...