Faith-based organizations are playing increasingly prominent roles in service delivery. However, the premise that such organisations promote gender equality and the empowerment of women needs critical re-examination.
As Polly Toynbee and David Walker round off their running audit of Labour’s record, Pat Thane considers the many ‘good things’ Labour governments achieved and the weaknesses that undermined them
People power does not lend itself to the geo-strategic interests of empires or warlords, since it is based on collective action and civic unity, as well as the refusal to comply with existing power-holders. Any movement that opts for civil resistance has to encompass and attempt to represent diver
The unreflective anti-Tory mindset prevalent across much of the left in the UK produces a tribal and blinkered politics. Those of us who disagree politically with Conservative values, ideas and policies have to do better and aim higher.
Let's not think inside the box of Britain, if we are to keep the Union and enjoy a federal country, instead of planning an English parliament in London we should start afresh.
Oleg Kashin, a journalist for Kommersant newspaper, was brutally beaten in Moscow last weekend. Unknown assailants broke his jaw, legs and bent his fingers. He remains critically ill. Here we publish a selection of Kashin’s blog entries.
For the past 20 years or more people have increasingly been exploring the British landscape on foot and by bike. Ken Worpole is one of them and here he reflects on the rewards for modern society in a renewed acquaintance with the natural world
The Burkean appeal to the organic 'little platoon' implicit in the Big Society idea rests uneasily with the Coalition's aims even if it undermines Labour's claims to represent communities
On Wednesday the 10th of November, the National Union of Students (NUS) and the University and College Union (UCU) brought together students and academic staff from across England and Wales
The Chair of the Commons committee investigating local government power asks "should these be codified?" and invites submissions.
To mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we have a true story from its early days. It is about a young man's rites of passage, but also an era of deception, self-deception and co-option, when those who made the journey to the other side could be turned by the Cold War into weapons.
