For a major Renovation Programme are approved. And British Cycling admits not paying sufficient care and attention to the wellbeing of its athletes. Good morning. Its friday 10th march. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Schools in england are being forced to cut gcse and a level courses in an effort to balance the books, according to a Head Teachers union. The association of school and College Leaders has warned Budget Pressures causing them to cancel things like school trips. This recent data from the Department For Education shows a dramatic rise in the number of secondary School Children in england being taught in classes with 36 or more pupils. Our education correspondent Gillian Hargreaves reports. Peter woodman at the weald school might be a head teacher but he still likes to work at the chalk face, partly because he enjoys it but partly because it saves money for the school. The only reason we can survive is we are carrying forward money from last year. And if the government stick t
Try to leak his vision led by a a few libertarians as the editors of the economist. Recently they published this article which tom just let me know he authored a couple of weeks ago. The recent and a warrant drugs and Central America have increased Peoples Awareness of the failure of prohibition and the need to tackle the socalled drug rovlin using a different approach. Tom argues that an Economic Perspective can help us to understand how the illicit drug industry and whats wrong with the current policies. He was after all leading freemarket cons from University Chicago using simple ruse of supply and demand who forcefully pointed out the fragility of prohibition. This approach was echoed by none other than the one of latin americas most renowned drug warriors mexican president Felipe Aycock around. Its to acknowledge that there are of its own drug holidays. By the end of his term in 2012 he told the wall street journal if the price of drugs goes up thanks largely to interdiction effor
It was after all leaving for more because the university of chicago such as noble laureates Milton Friedman using simple rules of supply and demand who most forcefully pointed out the fragility of prohibition. This approach was ago by none other than one of latin americas most renowned and into his recent drug warriors, former mexican president Lupe Calderon took he acknowledged the failure of his own drug policies. The end of the term in 2012 he told the wall street journal the following, if the price of drugs goes up thanks largely to interdiction efforts and that demand is the same you will increased profits for your putting more incentives for participants in the market. He went on to say that it is clearly a textbook case for Economic System which is the more successful you are, the more criminals you are creating. This is precisely what the world drugs have been doing for over 40 years. Tom wainwright writes prohibition has driven up the price of a few cheap and cultural commodit
Good afternoon from washington washington it is 12, noon eastern on cspan2 book tv. And once a month, we spent three hours in depth with an within author and this month our guest was scheduled to be steve forbes who this morning you might have heard was on a train en route from new york to savanna georgia when a derailment took place just south of philadelphia. He is safe and now en route back to new york city and joining us live on the phone. Thank you for being with us. Good to be with you. What a morning you have had. Explain what happened. Outside of philadelphia the train was moving along and then it made a sudden jerk like it was going to make an abrupt stop. It wasnt a normal slowdown you have when you come around the curve. Then it moved a little bit and another stop. Then it came to a complete stop and there was smoke and it felt like the brakes were smoldering so we just sat there wondering what had happened. The electricity was knocked out so there was no system. So the rumo
I think the reason why some of these have stuck around all the time, as youve said, theyre really politically intractable. But in some sense theres a reason for that, and maybe its not necessarily a bad thing. I mean, the other option is to have absolutely no regulation, right, at the extreme so that theres no conflict over what that regulation and anything goes. And if thats not what were trying to set up, a sort of superregulatory council that can sort of whackamole and bat down anything that is not the least trade restrictive model, thats where youre getting political pushback be. And thats the idea that, you know, citizens want to be able to have some say in what their economy looks like. And in some senses, you know, some citizens want greater Government Intervention in the economy. Cato would say less Government Intervention in the economy. But these are really, really important questions. And it really gets to, again, i think, marjories question when she said raise your hand if