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

Paddy Ashdown has an opinion piece on Afghanistan in The Times today (£) in which he says: We have repeatedly deluded ourselves about “successes” that never existed and thus took so long recognising that a victor’s peace was beyond our reach that we wasted the best opportunities for a negotiated one. We failed to understand

Local lenders have the chance to transform the region’s credit landscape

Climate change this century poses both risks and opportunities, according to the first comprehensive government assessment of its type.

In spite of risks, businesses could benefits from cheaper shipping costs to new fishing and crop opportunities

As I predicted, the talks about talks in Amman between Israel and the PLO came to nothing, simply because there's nothing to negotiate...the 'Palestinians' are unwilling to do anything unless the Israelis agree to all their demands in advance. While Mahmoud Abbas played good cop and talked about seizing opportunities for peace, Fatah's negotiator Saeb Erekat made it very plain ...

Boris Johnson certainly hit the common sense button this week when he said that many unemployed Brits need to take a good look at the energy that many overseas workers, especially in London, put into their work - and learn from it.   Boris is no supporter of the immigrant worker invasion lessening the number opportunities for young and part time British jobless, but he is savvy enough to appr...

This coming Friday I will introduce the Second Reading of a Bill which has the capacity to permanently change the way in which public sector bodies procure services – whether local authorities, NHS trusts or Government Departments. It will require them to consider how what is being procured will improve the economic, social and environmental

Gordon Marsden MP, Labour's Shadow Further Education, Skills and Regional Growth Minister, is today calling on the Government to take action to boost apprenticeship opportunities for young people at small and medium sized businesses (SMEs).

A landmark of sorts. Says the BBC: City dwellers in China now outnumber rural dwellers for the first time as more people seek better economic opportunities, official figures show. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that there were now...