Nigel Lawson's provocations on the EU question raise some important points. It is no longer tenable to trot out the same tired arguments for the Union. It has very serious failings. A positive account of the UK's membership must address them head on.

Forget “Home, Sweet Home”. The British government’s bedroom tax humbles families in social housing, depriving them of the dignity to call their home their own, forcing many of them to move and driving some into homelessness.

The massive 2003 public campaign against Blair’s attempt to take the UK into war against Iraq demanded a war powers rule in Parliament to ensure that no government could ever again commit the country to war without Parliament’s approval. A decade later, the fight goes on for the ruling.

A new manifesto, 'Fresh Start', has been published by a group of Conservative MPs proposing a new relationship between the UK and EU. The (not so hidden) agenda: sweeping away many of the rights that protect British workers from exploitation.

A Commission has just reported in whether Britain needs its own Bill of Rights instead of relying on the European Convention. It divided as a Conservative majority says it does. They convinced Stuart Weir, a long time supporter of such a Bill, to change his mind!

The latest scandal over foster services and the UKIP party reveal how low the British press can stoop. Will Leveson help at all?

A piece on the proposed limits to child benefit prompted a vigorous comment thread. Its author responds. 

Limited, moderate, ineffectual — we must do better than London's little uprising on Saturday 20 October.

Their Party conference in Brighton showed Britain's Lib Dems embracing a Blair like leader in Nick Clegg. But this will drive them apart from Labour when progressives in both parties need each other.