The instrumentalisation of research and successive governments' preoccupation with 'impact' have gradually eroded the independence of British academia. Business and politics alike are narrowing funding and skewing outcomes.
Two apparently very different books, The Tommy Sheridan Story and Pearmain's The Politics of New Labour, both recount the search for left alternatives in Britain.
What the Dow wrap tells us about the London Olympic Games’s approach to sustainable development
Even after the expenses scandal shook parliament to its core, many British MPs are still putting greed before duty.
The author's new film on adoption in the UK had to overcome huge difficulty and sensitivity to expose the uncomfortable truths about a process which does not always work for the children whose welfare it is meant to promote
The track record and ideology which won Malcolm Grant the chair of the Health Minster's NHS Commissioning Board are the very same reasons students have rejected his leadership of University College London.
Following the resignation of financial man Howard Davies, the appointment of radical academic Craig Calhoun as director could signal a sea change for the London School of Economics, hopes a Student Union sabbatical officer.
Failure to take collective responsibility for rapes at camp sites springs from the ideological tension at the heart of the Occupy movement's twin emphases on autonomy and group action as 'the 99%'. An injection of feminist politics is sorely needed.
A response to the idea of transforming British politics through citizens entering parliament for one-term only.
Two anthologies emanating from the broadly defined British left have wildly different conceptions of progress and democracy. One celebrates protest while the other refuses to stray from the narrow confines of existing political debate.
A citiziens' initiative seeking a reform of Poland's abortion law is facing a crucial test in parliament. This is the latest phase of a long struggle over women's reproductive rights. It is also part of a changing Poland's wider debate about what kind of country it should be, says Agnieszka Mrozik
On International Human Rights Day, 10 December, dozens of British human rights organisations issued an open letter defending the country's human rights legislation - under attack from those who brand it a European imposition.
