The star of Blue Labour, a key project influencing the re-shaping of the Labour party, appears to be waning, after controversial remarks made by its informal leader on immigration. But we must hold onto the valuable aspects of Blue Labour thinking, which have already made their mark on the party
An Independent Jewish Voices panel discussion suggests that the most important lesson of the Arab Spring may be the introduction of public will and opinion into the debate, and that this applies as much to inter-state diplomacy as domestic governance.
"We are really going back a few steps. . . . just lost expertise, data, everything . . . for me, it’s almost like burning down a library". Elizabeth Kennedy reports on the severe impact funding cuts are having on Roma youth in the UK
Despite the Arab Spring, Israeli ‘facts on the ground ‘ will succeed without effective international intercession and greater Palestinian and Arab unity
The Perm region once boasted well-managed forests, protected and processed for the common good. Today those forests lie abandoned or looted in the name of progress. The locals aren’t happy, but what can they do, asks Roman Yushkov?
Belgium’s law banning the face-veil and other forms of face covering is badly drafted, unnecessary, and counter-productive
The EU has a choice to make: does it want to assert itself as a normative power, or does it want to stay an inconclusive and erratic political dwarf?
Deborah Padfield, a citizen’s advice bureau adviser, returns to report from the poverty line – a part of Britain that is outside David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’. In the second of a series of five posts, she describes how politicians and the media would much rather focus on benefit fraud than the far
With the government's White Paper, we are facing the full-scale privatisation of the NHS in England and Wales.
Bypassing the civil society that started the revolution leads to two options for Yemen's future, and neither bodes well for stability.
