English Brexit voters may have voted not so much for the return of Empire, but for greater attention to England as the only stateless nation in the UK.

Youth-led groups came together from across England to take part in the Civil Society Futures inquiry. This is what they wanted you to hear.

The largest inquiry of its kind for two decades publishes report outlining changes needed to revitalise civil society.

There was little on offer in yesterday’s budget to meaningfully help struggling hospitals, health and social care services. So it's up to us to organise.

Where once politicians spoke of England when they meant Britain, they now speak of Britain when they mean England.

If these rebels hadn’t somehow found the courage to strike out in bold, new and, frankly, dangerous directions, we would all be the poorer for it.

Joyce Sheppard talks about the campaign to save South Yorkshire’s Women’s Aid – one of many domestic violence services impacted by government cuts.

More than it thinks, Britain may need its membership in the EU for the preservation of its national integrity and of its ancient constitutional settlement.

Rejecting feminism and the political left that has apparently neglected them for too long, four young women explain why they turned right. RU

“Charlie’s Army never sleeps”: the case of British child Charlie Gard and the growing power and global reach of American conservative activists and “pro-family” organisers.

Recent research on Afghan immigrant women in London has revealed a multi-layered crisis. What can be done to address this, and to empower them?

A remarkable new documentary assembled from Gertrude Bell's letters read over archive footage makes us wish for what might have been

A northern European who has long made their home in England reflects from Austria on the odd unease that the English still have with expressions of national identity

Will Brexit ultimately result in a united federal Ireland in a confederation with Scotland, in the EU – with England and Wales outside it?

Borderline, a new play by Sophie Besse about - and with a cast of - refugees represents an ideal of being together

Children seeking asylum in the UK are regularly disbelieved about how old they are and can end up facing harmful, protracted disputes. The culture of disbelief so often criticised in the Home Office has now seeped into some local authorities.

The outsourcing of public services to private contractors has transformed the state. What has gone wrong, why and what can be done?  A review of "Shadow State" by Alan White.

The comforts of pessimism are to be found in an illusion of control

The latest Green Paper in the UK on higher education puts ‘Student Choice’ as a top policy objective. But are there real choices for those who believe in “education for education’s sake”?

There is no room for Britain’s turning away from Europe to a fantasy mid-Atlantic or neo-Commonwealth position of the kind floated, typically unseriously, by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.