politics
What works in criminal justice? Time to find out
What’s a guilty plea worth? One third off the custodial tariff (the current arrangement) or a 50 per cent reduction in sentence for an early plea?
No thanks, says Boris
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, (pictured) doesn’t appear too impressed by the rap on the knuckles he recei
Waiting times raise the political temperature
Andrew Lansley’s appearance before the Health Select Committee on December 12 produced an argument fit for the fourth form.
Racist or meritocratic? Oxbridge maligned
David Lammy MP claims to have extracted some interesting information about the admission of black students to Oxford and Cambridge through freedom of information requests.
The perils of overplaying the polls
On 23 November The Guardian published a political poll showing that Labour was ahead as Ed Miliband returned from paternity leav
Taking liberties with the “liberal gene”
Scientists find the gene that makes you a liberal, reported the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and the Daily Express last week.