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Published in: openDemocracyUKGoverning England in the wake of BrexitEnglish Brexit voters may have voted not so much for the return of Empire, but for greater attention to England as...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA letter from young people to English civil societyYouth-led groups came together from across England to take part in the Civil Society Futures inquiry. This is what...
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Published in: HomeCivil society inquiry calls for radical reforms to stem social divisionsThe largest inquiry of its kind for two decades publishes report outlining changes needed to revitalise civil society.
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Published in: ourNHSThe budget offers the NHS scraps – and fails to see off the privatisersThere was little on offer in yesterday’s budget to meaningfully help struggling hospitals, health and social care...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEngland – the nation that is not to be named?Where once politicians spoke of England when they meant Britain, they now speak of Britain when they mean England.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The lessons of the World Cup for our victim cultureIf these rebels hadn’t somehow found the courage to strike out in bold, new and, frankly, dangerous directions, we...
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Published in: 50.50'The Tories cut, we bleed': the story of Women’s Lives Matter in Doncaster
Joyce Sheppard talks about the campaign to save South Yorkshire’s Women’s Aid – one of many domestic violence...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU as Britain’s constitutional stabiliser?More than it thinks, Britain may need its membership in the EU for the preservation of its national integrity and of...
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Published in: 50.50Why we’re Right: young women on the UK’s growing right-wing scene in their own wordsRejecting feminism and the political left that has apparently neglected them for too long, four young women explain...
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Published in: 50.50How Charlie Gard became a cause célèbre for the US Christian right“Charlie’s Army never sleeps”: the case of British child Charlie Gard and the growing power and global reach of...
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Published in: 50.50Too many Afghan women in London face racism, sexism – and unwanted pregnanciesRecent research on Afghan immigrant women in London has revealed a multi-layered crisis. What can be done to address...
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Published in: HomeGertrude Bell: the tragedy of her letters from BaghdadA remarkable new documentary assembled from Gertrude Bell's letters read over archive footage makes us wish for what...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe EU is the real protector of national identitiesA northern European who has long made their home in England reflects from Austria on the odd unease that the English...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ireland, Brexit and our Disunited KingdomWill Brexit ultimately result in a united federal Ireland in a confederation with Scotland, in the EU – with England...
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Published in: HomeHow to improvise with refugees
Borderline, a new play by Sophie Besse about - and with a cast of - refugees represents an ideal of being together
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Published in: Shine A LightLost childhoods: age disputes in the UK asylum system
Children seeking asylum in the UK are regularly disbelieved about how old they are and can end up facing harmful,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOur outsourced, shadow state
The outsourcing of public services to private contractors has transformed the state. What has gone wrong, why and...
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Published in: HomeTo hell in a handcart
The comforts of pessimism are to be found in an illusion of control
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Published in: 50.50Education worth thinking aboutThe latest Green Paper in the UK on higher education puts ‘Student Choice’ as a top policy objective. But are there...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The making of an open and democratic Europe: reading Brexit through E.P. ThompsonThere is no room for Britain’s turning away from Europe to a fantasy mid-Atlantic or neo-Commonwealth position of...
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