Speaking in the chamber is a challenge for any MP. However keen you are to give a speech on an issue, there is no guarantee that you will be called by the Spea...
Brexit is an issue that combines the
need for urgent practical decision making with profound questions about the
value and meaning of democracy.
In m...
There might be many reasons why you
think a second referendum should not be held on the UK’s membership of the EU. Most
obviously, if you are a Leaver, you thi...
You may remember a news
story about a sex offender treatment programme in prisons being
disbanded. The decision was taken not just because the programme was in...
The ‘planetary health diet' was announced last week by an international commission established to prevent millions of deaths a year and avoid climate change. B...
British politics is regularly said to be at a critical juncture. With Brexit, for once this is not hyperbole. It represents the most significant moment of poli...
The case of the ‘Stansted 15’, who are currently awaiting sentencing on terrorism-related charges, is not a one-off episode but part of a worrying trend. Peace...
When did you last pick up a copy of your local paper? Not
recently? You’re not the only one. Britain’s local press looks to be on its
last legs. Since 2005, al...
Socioeconomic inequalities in education are among those ‘burning injustices’ that Theresa May, in her first speech as prime minister, pledged to put right. Wit...
Politicians often point to falling benefit claimant counts as a measure of success. Tackling ‘dependency’ on state benefits is a key policy objective, and if s...
Wearing poppies has become far more controversial than in any period since this British initiative of remembrance began in 1921. For example, white poppies, fir...
These days, few organisations can escape the clamour to assess the ‘Social Return on Investment’, or SROI, of proposed new projects. But how often are local peo...
