Gordon Brown will promise free laptops and broadband access for 270,000 low income families so they can better follow their children's progress at school.

Thanks to Progress for appearing to include CP-LOL in their Links HERE. Yet to receive any traffic from it though, as it actually points to Comment is Free who get doubel helpings. I'll have to start contributing. The first message from a well-wisher pointing out the error cited Labour List as the culprits. But, as it goes, all their blog links seem well-directed ... they just don't have...

Following Gordon Brown's announcement earlier this week that the Westminster Government would legislate in England and Wales for free prescriptions for people with cancer, Ulster Unionist Party Health Spokesperson John McCallister MLA has urged Health Minister McGimpsey to continue with progress towards free prescriptions for everyone in Northern Ireland.

Children from jobless and low income families will receive a free computer and free broadband access under major plans from Department for Children, Schools and Families to close the digital divide amongst young people.

Labour’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has announced that 270,000 low income families will receive a free computer and free broadband access. The announcement, backed by a £300m investment, come on the same day as further measures are discussed in Parliament, including a promise that all parents will be able to benefit from online reporting and increased one-to-one tuition for chil...

My Progress column this week is about Free Schools:

A little too much emphasis on progressivism (which is the antithesis of individualism and freedom) and too many examples of "free" this and "free" that (progress that often stifled freedom and did not advance it) but it got better from 1975 onwards...

The New Space conference has been in progress all weekend and runs through tonight. Some idea of how the world has changed is that a bunch of free-market entrepreneurs are welcome at NASA Ames. This is partly because so many of the high positions in NASA are now taken by people who (mostly) agree with us, or at the very least see no other way NASA can continue to function. They need cheap access t...

An additional 44,000 children will be eligible for free school meals from August, the Scottish Government announced yesterday.

HM Revenue & Customs has set up a new unit to focus on about 350,000 wealthier taxpayers, typically earning above £150,000 and with £2m of free capital