With a further extension of Brexit deadline day now on the
table, the future for Northern Ireland appears increasingly uncertain. Parliamentary
negotiations ar...
2019 is the fiftieth
anniversary of the Ely inquiry – widely seen as the first public inquiry into a
scandal in the NHS. Since then, NHS inquiries have prolife...
The 2015–17 Parliament was the first time
in history that the Conservatives were in government with no easily assembled
majority in the House of Lords. This ha...
Only
a few years ago, the protection of human rights seemed to be a relatively
uncontentious political objective, a consensual expression of the liberal
values...
A relatively new addition to the British summer calendar, joining
Royal Ascot and Wimbledon, is the public revelation of another year of
hyper-inflation in uni...
What do
employers and employees gain when they participate in mechanisms of collective
voice? This question matters because work is changing and there are like...
Since 2010, Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants has
brought a catalogue of human rights violations and inequalities in Britain. Immigration
rule...
The Conservative Party regards
human rights as a ‘foreign’ imposition from Europe. Conservatives opposed
Labour's Human Rights Act (HRA) in 1998; recent manife...
Public inquiries sometimes feel
like a version of Groundhog Day where it is repeatedly stated
that ‘lessons will be learned’. One of the key reasons ...
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...
The ideas for
corporate governance reform espoused in the final report of the IPPR Commission
on Economic Justice make intuitive sense. But the question, from ...
We should expect democratic systems to meet some relatively modest claims: they should be able to provide for the equal treatment of men and women as individua...
