In this year’s local elections, voters in five English council areas were asked to do something unfamiliar to voters in Britain. Something that appears fairly u...
Last month, the BBC reported that Amazon’s UK tax bill had fallen despite a significant increase in its profits to public outcry. Many people are infu...
Who represents us, how they got there, and their attitudes and beliefs are the underpinnings of our political system. In our surveys of all parliamentary c...
When Steve Bannon, then President Trump’s chief strategist, announced as one of his key goals ‘the deconstruction of the administrative state’, many liberals we...
Anya Pearson interviews Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at Oxford University and Guardian columnist, after he delivered the Political Quarterl...
We are in the midst of the latest and perhaps most radical reconfiguration of the penal state in the UK. Such changes are permeating all aspects of the landscap...
On the face of it, policy making in education points a positive picture of inclusion and equality. However, higher education is one example (of many) in which i...
We are currently witnessing a renaissance of thinking about localism, local democracy, and participative and democratic shaping of public services on the left. ...
Dementia has been identified as the biggest health and social care challenge facing UK society, due to an ageing population. At the 2011 census, 16 per cent of ...
People who run for political office are strange. That is, they are unlike most other people. The pertinent question from a democratic standpoint is whether this...
In the 1950s, Enoch Powell, the newly-elected Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West, and Clement Jones, a journalist on the Wolverhampton Express and Sta...
Council tax certainly has a reputation, and not a good one. There are well rehearsed arguments as to why: it is regressive and hits the incomes of our poorest h...
