Today is the 50th anniversary of the European Social Charter on workers' rights. The UK government is not celebrating, as it seeks to squeeze employment rights still further to satisfy corporate interests.
The crackdown on the right to protest has begun in earnest, with Vince Cable's speech to the GMB Annual Congress. Keith Ewing presents a letter to the Business Secretary, asking how he can justify the introduction of further anti-strike legislation in the UK
After the vigour and excitement of the student demonstrations against the cuts, today’s Guardian leader derides Unite’s new general secretary Len McCluskey as a ‘Bourbon’. Why? Because he proposes trade union action and strikes rather than defeatist acceptance of the government’s unjust and counte
In the second review of the book on the rule of law by Lord Bingham, the former lord chief justice, Keith Ewing argues that far from being crusaders for the rule of law, our judges regularly fail to protect human rights
Along with a number of other people, I went along to Parliament’s Portcullis House last Wednesday. It was for a meeting on the government’s Green Paper on a
Keith Ewing (King's College London): According to Vernon Bogdanor, the Damien Green affair is a ‘storm in a teacup’; while according to Harriet Harman it raises ‘big constitutional
