Director’s Bulletin 14th February 2009Introduction Libertarian Alliance Publications Media Appearances Speaking Engagements Libertarian Alliance Events Libertarian Alliance Book Recommendation Libertarian Alliance Conference Negative Scanner Needed Introduction It is cold. I am working hard to finish a book before April. My Baby Bear is now running about the house with more hands than the av...

Mid-Ulster MLA Billy Armstrong has welcomed today's announcement by the Social Development Minister, Margaret Ritchie MLA, that £300,000 funding is to be given to the boost for the Churches' Community Work Alliance Northern Ireland.

Social order in Britain's innercities will collapse unless Gordon Brown and David Cameron bury their political differences and work together a powerful alliance of MPs warns.

You’d have a hard time working out from this report in today’s Sunday Express that it’s the Liberal Democrats who are in second place in the latest Angus Reid poll the newspaper has commissioned. If you try really hard you can just about work out that it’s likely that is the case (given the poll share

Ezra Klein rightly takes issue with the idea that wealth comes more from hard work than from luck and social circumstances. He points out that he doesn't really work harder than people at laundries, or in coffee shops, or working on road maintenance. It is that the market is arranged in such a way as to reward him more for his work than them for theirs.

So I admit it I am a social worker, a senior one at that and a Practice Teacher for social work students. And after the past few weeks the steam has finally stopped coming out of my ears. Like everyone else I have shaken my head at the press reports about the torture and death of Baby P and even shed a tear for the wee mite but I haven't got caught up in the social work baiting. In the curren...

As unemployment rises in the current recessionary climate, Demos Director, Richard Reeves revaluates the fulfillment from and social value of the work we do.

I have spent my entire working life in the field of health and social care. For many years I worked for Age Concern and for all my time in the Lords I have been a member of the Health and Social Care team. I am, and always will be, a passionate supporter of an NHS

I followed the lead of Andrew Allison and contacted my MP by email to express my opinion of Mr Speaker and ask his views on the motion of no-confidence. Within two days I received a very polite reply signed by my MP himself. I must admit I am impressed by such efficiency but wonder if it might be better value for money if emails are answered with emails instead of with lovely quality House of Comm...

John McCallister MLA, Ulster Unionist Party Spokesperson for Health Social Services and Public Safety has congratulated the Minister for Health Social Services and Public Safety, Michael McGimpsey, as the Health and Social Care (Reform) Bill reached its final stage in the Assembly today. Mr. McCallister believes that the Bill is the most significant piece of legislation to pass through the Assembl...