Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Beginning of the end for the bedroom tax? - politics.co.uk

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"The bedroom tax causes huge social problems and distorts the market – we as a party cannot support this"

Bedroom tax epiphany

Bedroom tax support falls apart as Lib Dem president breaks ranks

Tim Farron breaks ranks on bedroom tax

Government support for the bedroom tax looks on the verge of collapse, after Lib Dem president Tim Farron breaks ranks

PMQs

PMQs as-it-happened

PMQs as-it-happens

Missed this week's PMQs? Catch up here.

Yarl's Wood death

Comment: We're locking people up for the crime of being born outside the UK

Keith Taylor: 'The majority of migrants leaving detention after a year or more are actually released back into the UK, rather than deported'

Britain's use of detention centres is abusive, counter-productive and cripplingly expensive

The Mothers' Day death: What happened to Christine Case?

Detained: Deaths from heart failure are not uncommon in detention centres.

Who was Christine Case and how did she die?

Labour demands inquiry into Serco-run Yarl's Wood following woman's death

Prison book ban

Comment: Grayling's book ban excuses just don't wash

Caroline Lucas: 'A gift of a book can change not just what you read but who you become'

The justice secretary's defence of the prisoner book ban is weak and contradictory

Comment: Why Nick Clegg is wrong to support the prisoner book ban

Frances Crook: 'If a prisoner is lucky enough to get a job working in the kitchen or cleaning the wings the average earning is £8 a week'

The deputy prime minister claims we can send in book to prison libraries - but he doesn't understand how the system works.

Comment & Analysis

Comment: Cameron's Muslim Brotherhood investigation is just a favour to the Saudis

Alastair Sloan: 'In a part of the world where religion is so important, it's unlikely in the near future that any populist movement will not in some way incorporate Islamist thinking'

The PM offers satisfaction to Sisi's murderous Egyptian regime with an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood

Comment: The medieval punishment of Syria continues, ignored by the world

Kristyan Benedict: 'The overall humanitarian situation in Syria remains calamitous'

Tens of thousands are enduring total collective imprisonment under pain of death and yet Westminster still has no sense of urgency

Comment: Facts – not emotions – will win the immigration debate

Patrick Ashworth: 'No political party would dream of letting their opponents' figures pass unchallenged'

Those of us who want to win the debate on immigration need to get the facts right, not just appeal to the heart

Root vegetables masquerading as rodents, and other calls to the RSPCA

As the RSPCA braces itself for its busiest year ever, the charity has released a list of the silliest calls it has received since January in a bid to discourage timewasters - be warned, these are not April Fools jokes, everything you are about to read is real!

Boeing, Air Canada Finalize Order for 61 737 MAXs

$6.5 billion order represents shift to Boeing fleet.

Government extends requirement to teach evolution and banning of pseudoscience to future Academies

The Government has revised the single Academies model funding agreement to bring it in line with the Free Schools model funding agreement in preventing Academies from teaching pseudoscience and to require the teaching of evolution.

RSPCA hopes excitement will be the only thing whipped up at Aintree

The RSPCA recognises the role of jockeys in helping to make the 2013 Grand National a success and hopes that this year’s race will also end without serious injury or fatalities.

BHA welcomes leading exam board OCR’s u-turn in policy of opposition to blacking out exam questions

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed the leading exam board Oxford, Cambridge and RSA’s ( OCR) decision that schools should not be permitted to redact exam questions.

World Court: Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling is illegal and must end

Delivering its judgment on Australia’s case against Japan, the ICJ today found that Japan’s Southern Ocean whale hunt was illegal under international law.

Boeing, Ryanair showcase strong, colourful partnership

Airline unveils specially painted Next-Generation 737-800 featuring Boeing, Ryanair colours.

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