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- Congestion charging – local or national issue?December 12 2008
- The people of Greater Manchester have voted against congestion charge plans which would have involved a peak-time road charge of up to £5 a day with the aim of providing a £2.8bn transport investment. A majority of voters in the region’s 10 boroughs voted against the plans, with 812,815 (79%) no votes and 218,860 (21%) [...]
- Western perceptions on global povertyDecember 1 2008
- The word ‘poverty’ is, no doubt, a key word of our times, extremely used and abused by everyone, above all in the Third World context. Huge amounts of money are spent in name of poor countries. Thousands of books and expert advice continue to offer solutions to their problems. But where does the current discourse [...]
- The quality of social services in the UKNovember 14 2008
- The violent death of ‘Baby P’ has sparked a heated debate on the quality of social services in this country: despite 60 visits from social workers over the course of one-and-a-half years, Haringey Council authorities failed to remove the 17-month-old baby from his violent mother and her partner and place him in good care. After [...]
- Remember, remember, the 4th of NovemberNovember 11 2008
- ‘Seismic shift’, ‘tidal wave’, ‘sea of change’ – just a few of the expressions echoing in the media, when journalists the world over were trying to capture the moment Barack Obama was declared president-elect of the USA. And indeed, it is hard to imagine that anyone would forget anytime soon the achievement of America’s first [...]
- For HalloweenOctober 31 2008
- I once inadvertently mentioned Halloween to a fervent Christian friend and provoked horrified reactions that it was a celebration of the dead and all things Satanic. Since we don’t traditionally go in for Halloween in England, and being an atheist, I’ve never had strong opinions about it, but knowing that IBSS indexes material on folklore, [...]