Amanwy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Posted on This is My Truth on 19 November So its official, the LCO system is flawed On the day the All Wales Convention delivered its verdict, the Assembly's Enterprise Committee was meeting behind closed doors to discuss the progress of its own bid for extra powers. There was exciting news. Ministers were dropping their opposition, and if the committee was willing to agree to a delay WAG would swing...
ToUChstone blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Presentations from a panel discussion at the TUC/Guardian Beyond Crisis conference. Monday 16 November 2009. Speakers are Lord Richard Layard (LSE), Andrew Simms (NEF), Glenis Wilmott MP. Chaired by Larry Elliot. by ToUChstoneblog on 17/11/2009
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The main themes of the TUC’s ‘Beyond Crisis’ conference were reinforced in an afternoon session featuring Lord Richard Layard, Andrew Simms of the New Economic Foundation (nef), and Glenis Willmott MEP. Layard and Simms called for a refocusing of economic policy while Willmott spoke of the risks posed by isolationism ...
The Screening Log (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Well, it's kind of funny. Mostly, Tim Blake Nelson's upcoming crime comedy "Leaves of Grass" looks incredibly silly, but in an amusing way. A new red band trailer for the film is now online. In a double performance, Edward Norton plays Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League classics professor who returns to rural Oklahoma to bury his dangerously brilliant identical twin brother Brady (also Norton)....
ToUChstone blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Professor Lord Richard Layard will be speaking at Beyond Crisis, a TUC / Guardian one-day conference on progressive responses to the financial crisis on 16 Nov in Central London. Register for free tickets at www.tuc.org.uk/beyondcrisis Previous recessions show that the main danger is the build-up of long-term unemployment. Once people are long-term unemployed, they become increasingly [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
WRITS ARE flying over the Chelsea Barracks fiasco in London. Lord Richard Rogers’ firm, originally commissioned to redevelop the 13-acre site, is suing owner Quatari Diar for £2m in fees, after having its design dropped like a hot potato when it was criticised by Prince Charles.
Fast Company Now (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Rogers's practice wins the 2009 Stirling Prize, for a cancer center designed to put patients at ease. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has just won the 2009 Stirling Prize, Britain's most prestigious architectural honors, for their design of a cancer center in London. As the Times of London reports , Rogers had been a dark horse in the competition, which comes with a £20,000 prize; bookie's had...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
A £3.5m cancer centre designed in west London designed by Lord Richard Rogers wins a leading architecture prize
Architectural Technologies (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Building of the year award 2009, RIBA award was won by Lord Richard Rogers with his amazing building, The Maggie's Centre, London. The building was opened to the public by Nigella Lawson and Maggie's Patron, Sarah Brown, on 29 April 2008. The small, orange building with a roof that seems to float above it has enlivened a challenging corner of Fulham Palace Road, with a tranquil garden leading up to...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
At the World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine which opened today in Torino Lord Richard Layard, Professor at the London School of Economics, has provided data on the British experience concerned with Improved Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT). This programme aims to train 3,500 therapists in CBT.
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
PLOT: Bill Kincaid (Edward Norton), an Ivy League professor, is lured back to his Oklahoma roots by his identical twin brother, Brady (Norton, sporting a mullet and some stubble) a small time pot dealer, in trouble with a local drug lord (Richard Dreyfuss). REVIEW: I was expecting big things from LEAVES OF GRASS, as I'm a huge fan of Edward Norton's, and I know this has been a pet project of his for...
Why England Needs A Parliament (Free subscription) | 24/07/2009
From Wales Online: Lord Richard, who led a review into the Assembly’s powers in 2003-04, is not a man to mince his words. Barnett has given Scotland and England more than they need and Wales and Northern Ireland too little. Lord Richard of Ammanford may not be a man to "mince his words" - but he is a man to tell lies. Any clear headed, unbiased assessment of the Barnett Formula reveals...
Why England Needs A Parliament (Free subscription) | 17/07/2009
The House Of Lords Barnett Formula Committee has made its report. Headed by a, we feel, bigoted, anti-English/England Welshman, the Committee comes up with some astounding cobblers: "When the Committee considered a range of indicators of need it became clear that Wales and Northern Ireland have greater needs per head of population than Scotland and England – the current allocations made...
icWales (Free subscription) | 17/07/2009
“EVERYBODY says that,” objected Lord Richard, when it was put to him that his House of Lords committee had just opened up that potent cliche, the can of worms.
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Yesterday's Plenary debate on ten years of devolution was a good knock-about not least for the Welsh Liberal Democrat amendment that the Assembly 'does not support independence for Wales'. This amendment was supported by all parties other than 12 Plaid Cymru members who then allowed the amended motion to go through unopposed. A good example of political confusion if ever I saw it. However, it is difficult...
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