We are witnessing the most intense wave of public protest in the history of Hong Kong. Why the protests are happening is widely understood: sparked by opp...
Since 2010, Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants has
brought a catalogue of human rights violations and inequalities in Britain. Immigration
rule...
We are technological teenagers when it comes to
social media. Facebook was made publicly available just 14 years ago, and
Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram far l...
Last year was the centenary of the 1918 Act which introduced universal suffrage for all male citizens over twenty‐one and all female citizens over thirty. Wome...
Reclaiming national sovereignty has been a mantra of Brexiteers. Yet one of the many ironies of Brexit is that Britain actually enjoys a special status wi...
Fretting about world population growth has become politically risky over recent decades. Yet numbers are still rising. Today’s ageing baby boomers have experie...
In his classic study of racism and psychiatry, Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon made a number of startling and powerful observations. While many of these h...
On 4 April 2005, the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) – which allows people who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria to change their legal gender – came into f...
On 19 June 2018, at a joint press conference with German chancellor Angela Merkel, French president Emmanuel Macron proclaimed that Europe, the EU and...
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...
There is no prospect of a united Ireland soon. Under the terms of the 1998 Belfast (or Good Friday) Agreement, a Border Poll referendum – determining wheth...
We are currently witnessing a renaissance of thinking about localism, local democracy, and participative and democratic shaping of public services on the left. ...
