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...
Yet Labour's strategy in the House of Lords has not been adapted to this new context. The 2015–17 Parliament was the first time in history that the Conservativ...
Lord Sumption, the former Supreme Court Justice and historian, devoted his 2019 Reith Lectures on Radio 4 to making the case that the law – particularly human ...
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...
Watching the Conservative leadership campaign would be an
entertaining spectator sport, were it not that the winner will be prime
minister, even if briefly. Th...
