Stephen Tall

Here’s today’s hand-picked selection that caught my interest…

• Cultures of worklessness – we need to focus on work, not welfare | Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  No inter-gen workless households found by @jrf_uk > ‘Cultures of worklessness – we need to focus on work, not welfare’ http://bit.ly/TcyKKy
• BBC News – Nick Clegg: Coalition mid-term review ‘to surprise on the upside’
  “On the whole I hope it will actually surprise on the upside”
• Sir Jeremy’s Civil Service just isn’t working – Telegraph
  Sue Cameron looks behind the messy imbroglio of Cameron vetoing David Kennedy’s appointment as Perm Sect at DECC http://bit.ly/TctMNP
• Balls’s demise has been exaggerated
  Good advice from @dpjhodges to Ed Balls > “start acting like the next chancellor, not the next Nadine Dorries” http://bit.ly/Tct9DY
• BBC crisis: let the public run our national broadcaster – Telegraph
  (3/3) And her’s Lab’s Tessa Jowell > BBC crisis: let the public run our national broadcaster http://bit.ly/W0dsnl
• Lord Bates: Time to give the licence fee payer a say at "their BBC"
  (2/3) Here’s the Tory, Lord Bates: Time to give the licence fee payer a say at “their BBC” http://bit.ly/Shr8JZ
• Cable Was Spot-On – But He’s Not Giving Himself A Chance To Say So – Chris Bowers – Dale & Co.
  Clegg’s biographer Chris Bowers > Cable Was Spot-On – But He’s Not Giving Himself A Chance To Say So http://bit.ly/TcrMoZ
• Italian politics: Mario Monti’s resignation | The Economist
  I’m ~sanguine abt LibDem poll figs – but how depressing that Berlusconi still attracts 15% | Mario Monti’s resignation http://econ.st/TcraQf
• Alistair Carmichael MP writes…Why I’ve put the whip away for the Equal Marriage vote
  LibDem chief whip @acarmichaelmp explains why he’s not whipping the party’s 57 MPs on #equalmarriage here http://bit.ly/ShnIXR