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Businesses must invest in midlife and older workers to unlock economic growth, says think tank Phoenix Insights

Phoenix Insights, the think tank addressing the challenge of longer lives, is calling on businesses to boost economic growth by supporting lifelong learning opportunities among mid and late-career workers, including giving clearer job and career progression assurances for those who retrain Never Too Late to Learn report says UK lags behind other OECD countries in its… Read more »

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HRH The Princess Royal is the new BASC Patron

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is delighted to announce Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal as the Association’s new Patron.   In response to her acceptance, BASC Council chairman, Eoghan Cameron, said: “We are privileged that The Princess Royal has accepted the invitation to become our new Patron. The news has been warmly welcomed… Read more »

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The media attacks on Brown's leadership did not go unnoticed in US circles
Wikileaks: US – Brown ‘lurched from disaster to disaster’

By Peter Wozniak New revelations from the Wikileaks cables show US diplomats’ dismissive attitude towards Gordon Brown’s ‘rudderless’ premiership. Cables from Robert Tuttle, US ambassador to London in the last days of George W. Bush’s presidency, commented on Labour’s prospects after its “terrible” by-election defeat to the SNP in Glasgow in July 2008. He wrote:… Read more »

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Nick Clegg's party see their support among students fall to 15% from 45% in May
Poll: Huge student swing to Labour

By politics.co.uk staff The Liberal Democrats have seen a collapse in student support since the election, a poll confirms. A YouGov survey of students currently at university had the party on 15% – one third of the support it enjoyed among the group in May. The main beneficiary appears to be Labour, up 18 points… Read more »