In this article, we argue that the perennial and widely-recognised problems with stop and search – its systematic targeting of Black people and other oppressed...
In this ongoing catalogue of coronavirus-related disorder – extraordinary death tallies, a global lockdown and chaotic financial markets – history re...
Antisemitism and the Labour party has rarely been out of the UK’s political headlines in the UK since 2016. Yet as we argue in our new article in the Political...
We need a reformed and bigger BBC putting
information engineering in the public interest at the centre of a new vision
for the UK. We are in the middle of an i...
While we decipher early signals on what the new government will bring, Dominic Cummings’ blog has become a must-read. Not because of the deliciously toxic anec...
U.S. President Donald Trump has long argued that NATO member states are shirking their commitment to the alliance. He has pressured allies to make greater mone...
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 oppositi...
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...