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Published in: openDemocracyUKAnthony Howard: Amanuensis to the old regimeA scribe of Britain's Labour establishment had died
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFacts on fees and the fallacies of ‘fairness’
What is the real nature of the government's legislation on higher education; what will be the consequences; and what...
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Published in: openEconomyFellow Britons! Remember: the banks still owe their survival to us. Let's use that power well
Without massive ongoing public support the banks will fail. We should take the consequences seriously, they extend...
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Published in: HomeA well-being world
The measuring of official policy by its impact on the quality of human life is progress. But only if the governments...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOn London's Oxford Street with UKuncutA friendly movement of flash protests against corporate tax avoidance when much needed public support is being cut...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTuition fees: the fallout
Thursday’s narrow victory on the tuition fees bill marked the first major blow to the Coalition. The bill passed,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK'English Literature' as ideologyThis essay traces the cultural embodiment of the British state in ‘English Literature’ in the period from 1790 to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy I defied the Whips and voted against my government’s education policy
The Lib Dem working peer and former vice-chancellor of Ulster University explains why he defied his party and the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of December 13th 2010
This week we lead with news of an horrific abuse of power by undercover narcotics agents which saw the unlawful...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Media on Miliband: Yesterday's Newsnight revealed much about the media's attitude to Labour's leader.
Some political journalists are like weather vanes – they indicate the direction in which attitudes among the pack...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKStudents of England, the NUS has failed you
After the passing of the tuition fee legislation through the Lords, many students in England feel abandoned and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNick Clegg may have sold out but the UK needs the Lib Dems and their party
There is a vindictive streak, pleasure and glee even, on the left about the political disarray and electoral...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK'We the people' deserve something better than a high-class villain's charter
Yesterday, the Guardian published Anthony Barnett's damning analysis of a document being hailed as the foundation of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDavid Willetts is trying to conjure away the dangers of higher education reform with the magic word 'choice'
There are many different kinds of magic trick, but for all of them, one technique is the most important:...
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Published in: Shine A LightFive years of denial: the UK government’s reckless pursuit of a punitive asylum policy — never mind the evidence of harmAs Nick Clegg prepares to make a statement that will either end the scandal of child detention by the immigration...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAu revoir, Iain Dale
Britain's leading Conservative blogger has called it a day and moved on to be a publisher and broadcaster, leaving...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNew York Times slams UK education policy as myopic, unfair, cruel, unwise, utter failure
Wikileaks showed that the incoming British government was desperate for American approval, perhaps they should...
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Published in: openEconomyStudent fees/loans good for the poorest graduates
The distributional aspects of the UK government's loans/fees package looks attractive
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow the fees decision is being legislated so quickly without debate - so much for democracy
How could parliament ram through the fees increase in three hours plus a short session in the Lords tomorrow?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe future of Ed Miliband's Labour Party is overshadowed by the threat to our civilisation, the barbarians are well past the gates
A sweeping response to Peter Kellner's argument for Labour to be the party of the British people and the call by...
