Socioeconomic inequalities in education are among those ‘burning injustices’ that Theresa May, in her first speech as prime minister, pledged to put right. Wit...
Abortion law is being politicised in the broader debate about devolution in Scotland, with serious implications for women’s rights.
In recent years, several de...
It was the former Labour politician David Marquand who identified what he called the ‘progressive dilemma’ in British politics, that is the reluctance of UK vot...
A long generation ago, in 1979, Roy Jenkins announced in his Dimbleby lecture that the time had come to break the mould of British politics. It has taken a long...
The Scottish referendum has been and gone, and attention has turned quickly to the prospect of another referendum, on Europe. Surveys suggest that the Scots are...
It turns out that breaking up is not so very hard to do. It might have been thought that the prospect of the breaking of Britain, which would be the consequence...
