Today’s stories from and about the CPS, as well as some of the most interesting articles seen online.
CPS
- CPS Research Fellow Michael Johnson writes for City AM on the Coalition’s pensions climb down – ‘The coalition’s pension plan is an insult to private sector workers, not to the unions’ http://tiny.cc/pxgzq
- Employee Benefits has also reported on Michael’s paper with Placard – ‘Association of Consulting Actuaries publishes paper on public sector pensions’ http://tiny.cc/l0vzi
- Kieron O’Hara blogs on conflict of interests in transparency and the release of court information – ‘Naming – and shaming?’ http://tiny.cc/lj73e
- Professor Jeremy Jennings authored a short piece on the UN genocide trials of Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia – ‘The Horror! The Horror!’ http://tiny.cc/l9rte
Top Links
Politics
- Make unions apply an Equality Impact Assessment before calling a strike (Conservative Home) http://tiny.cc/1k3hj
- How the Guardian destroyed the left’s excuses for the riots (Neil O’Brien, The Telegraph) http://tiny.cc/7ykzu
Europe
- If you believe fiscal union would work, you must also believe in Santa Claus (Bruce Anderson, Conservative Home) http://tiny.cc/v56ad
- Q&A Euro crisis: everything you need to know (Iain Martin, The Telegraph) http://tiny.cc/04l4u
- Downing St insists there will be no EU referendum despite Iain Duncan Smith’s demands (James Kirkup, The Telegraph) http://tiny.cc/qtfwu
- A new eurozone treaty and the Merkozy challenge to Britain: in or out, Mr Cameron? (James Kirkup, The Telegraph) http://tiny.cc/287i8
World Politics
- Don’t Lock Women Out of Afghanistan’s Future (Megan Moore, The Commentator) http://tiny.cc/27idw
- Hillary Clinton expresses ‘serious concerns’ over Russia’s elections (The Telegraph) http://tiny.cc/g356x
- Why Cain supporters should consider Gary Johnson (Christopher Barron, GOProud) http://tiny.cc/qvdnz
Business
- UK banks charging as much as 800,000% on overdrafts (BBC News) http://tiny.cc/cpz8z
Health & Science
- Improving the health of the nation (The Spectator) http://tiny.cc/g5bqf
- The dangers of the ‘diet police’ (Stephanie Lis, TFA) http://tiny.cc/vc3dr
General
- Alaska man survives being stranded in snow by eating frozen beer (The Telegraph) http://tiny.cc/a8l46
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Date Added: Monday 5th December 2011
