Monday, 22 July 2013

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"There will be no escaping this decision, no ‘remind me later’ and then it never gets done. And they will ensure it is an adult making the choice."

Decision time

David Cameron's porn speech in full

David Cameron says households will face an "unavoidable choice" on pornography

Prime minister David Cameron has begun the summer recess with a speech outlining ways in which the government will clampdown on internet pornography. Here's the check-against-delivery version released by Downing Street in full:

Households forced to choose: Do you want porn or not?

"Unavoidable choice" to be made by all households

The government has reversed its previous opposition to a default ban on online pornography.

Losing patience: No 10 threatens search engines over child porn

Internet search engines have until October, PM warns

David Cameron has threatened to legislate against internet search giants to force them to do more against online child pornography.

Baby mayhem

Royal baby? This has been the mother of all media frenzies

Something has gone horribly, horribly wrong

The intense national squawking about the royal baby has turned us into a nation of flapping mother-in-laws. We seem to have forgotten that this little bundle of joy will make next to no difference to any of our day-to-day lives.

Royal baby: Sarcasm dominates as Kate enters labour

The Duchess of Cambridge is in early labour, Kensington Palace says

Politicians are showing troubling signs of struggling to cope with the tension as the royal baby's birth approaches.

Austerity Britain

Balls' new friend: Shadow chancellor looks stateside for economy answers

George Osborne: "Instead of complacent claims that everything is going to plan, Osborne should this week recognise that for ordinary families life is still getting harder."

Ed Balls is to team up with former US treasury secretary Larry Summers in a bid to come up with transatlantic answers to Britain and America's economic woes.

Living wage: 'Platitudes not enough', Archbishop of York declares

Low pay is a "scandal", John Sentamu says

British workers need more than "platitudes" from politicians if a national living wage is to be achieved, the Archbishop of York has said.

Meanwhile...

Comment: Immigration policy could end Britain's higher education supremacy for good

James Pitman: "It’s no exaggeration that a cap on international students would very likely spell the end of Britain's thousand year history as one of the world's premier higher education destinations."

International students, whatever and wherever they study, should be classified as 'education tourists' – reflecting their true intellectual, cultural, and financial value – and be removed from the net migration count altogether.

Ex-spy chief threatens Iraq 'time-bomb'

A page from the transcript to Sir Richard Dearlove's evidence to the Iraq inquiry

Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove has threatened to release his "time-bomb" memoirs on the so-called 'dodgy dossier' sooner rather than later.

Local coup: MPs move to clamp down on police commissioner powers

Home affairs committee chairman Keith Vaz: "It is worrying that police and crime commissioners seem able to side-step the statutory process for dismissing a chief constable."

Newly-elected police commissioners have been given far too much power over chief constables, an influential committee of MPs has found.

National Grid: Beating renewable targets 'no longer credible'

NASUWT comments on the deputy prime minister's announcement

Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT the largest teachers’ union, comments on the announcement by the deputy prime minister to reform the way in which primary schools are held to account...

RSPCA: Lab animal numbers break 4 million barrier

Today the Government announced that the number of animals used annually in scientific procedures in the UK has increased yet again, and shockingly, has now broken the 4 million mark (4.03 million animals used in a total of 4.11 million scientific procedures).

Dr Hadwen Trust outraged by another annual rise in animal experiments

Home Office figures released today showing an 8% rise in the number of procedures conducted using animals in scientific research in 2012 make for ‘immensely distressing and upsetting news’, according to the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research (DHT).

ESRC: 'What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth'

The ESRC is delighted to announce the funding of the new independent 'What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth'.

ESRC: 'What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth'

The ESRC is delighted to announce the funding of the new independent 'What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth'.

Voice: Public urged to take part on consultation on “outrageous” pay recommendation for MPs

Voice: the union for education professionals – which represents teachers, education support staff and nursery workers – has rejected the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority’s recommendations on MPs’ pay and called on members of the public to send their views to Ipsa.Public urged to take part on consultation on “outrageous” pay recommendation for MPs

MRSA Action UK: Accounting for the reductions in MRSA and C.diff flawed - these are lives, not numbers

Public Health England figures show that trends over the last two years reveal that there is a direct correlation between the hospital and community apportioned cases of both Clostridium difficile and MRSA bloodstream infections.

IET: New computing curriculum lacks clarity

Plans to transform the national curriculum for state schools in England, announced today, lack clarity according to Europe’s biggest engineering and technology institution.

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