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COLUMN: Kevin Rowan - Forget grandstanding, PM must look to Europe for answers Feb 11 2013

THE 3% cut to the EU budget after last week’s marathon summit amounts to a tiny proportion of public spending throughout the European Union – less than 1%.Read

COLUMN: Kevin Rowan - Please don’t mess about with the East Coast Main Line Feb 04 2013

THE annual Rail Passenger Satisfaction survey showed some interesting results.Read

COLUMN: Kevin Rowan - Let's hope it doesn't take a riot Jan 28 2013

IT is worth a short reprise of last week’s verdict on the Government’s strategy: GDP down by 0.3% in 2012, still lower than 2008; manufacturing down 1.5% and services flat – the only positive boost coming from a fortunately timed Olympic games.Read

COLUMN: Kevin Rowan - Striking a balance on Europe Jan 21 2013

THE Prime Minister was right, of course, to postpone the much-anticipated speech on the UK’s future relationship with the European Union in light of the extremely serious situation in Algeria last week.Read

COLUMN: Kevin Rowan - Restraint appetite is limited Jan 14 2013

CHANCELLOR George Osborne is regularly mocked whenever he utters the now infamous catchphrase associated with his first emergency Budget: ‘we’re all in this together’.Read

COLUMN: Kevin Rowan - Teachers' suffering continues Dec 17 2012

PLANS to introduce ‘freedoms’ for schools to introduce different rates of pay for teachers announced in the autumn statement is another blow for a group of workers who have been pretty much under constant attack by the Government since the Coalition came to power.Read

COLUMN: Kevin Rowan - Families struggling to survive Dec 03 2012

A RAPIDLY escalating consequence of the dire economic and impoverished situation many people in the North East find themselves in is the abhorrent exploitation of finance providers such as payday loans, legal loan sharks and credit organisations providing domestic goods.Read

COLUMN: Kevin Rowan - Dispelling the myth of benefits Nov 19 2012

NEW environments can create new language. In the government-led assault on welfare benefits ‘scroungerphobia’ is gaining traction; otherwise sensible people developing a genuine disdain for all benefit recipients, an attitude which fails to appreciate facts, is dependent upon believing myths and one which is profoundly regressive.Read

COLUMN: Kevin Rowan - Employers must have duty of care Nov 12 2012

IT shouldn’t come as any surprise that the economic environment is having a negative impact not just on those that have lost their jobs, of which there are many in the North East, but those in work.Read