A reply to a piece highlighting the positive aspects of British asylum policy and politics, by a former Chair of National Refugee Week
Australia’s detention regime offers an ugly vision of where UK asylum policy may be headed
Blue Labour is based on a problematic understanding of conservatism, which takes working class conservatism at face value, and omits the commitment to an unequal social order
Pop singer Rihanna has offered to re-film the music video 'Man Down', in which she plays a rape victim who shoots her abuser. But was the controversy caused by the film's sexual and violent content, or because it shows a woman answering back on her own terms?
Friday essay in response to David Elstein, arguing that the HRA already contains the framework for balancing the right to free expression and the right to respect for private life
In the words of the African parable, when elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers. Then what will they have to survive on? Alice Welbourn reports on the plethora of men on the platform in New York....
If we are living in an age of gender equality, why are women still left holding the baby? "Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality" is bold enough to ask this question, and propose a set of solutions
History reveals an abundance of democratic paradoxes: cases in which progress on women’s rights regressed in the aftermath of revolution. Coming to terms with the battle between secularism and Islam – a dispute long silenced by Ben Ali’s rabidly secular policies – will require a redefinition of wo
The creation of a new Belgian government seems as unlikely as the Red Devils ever winning the World Cup. Bart de Wever, leader of the nationalist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), receives much of the blame, but representatives from all political parties across the language frontier are unable to bridg
‘Why are the traditional media losing their credibility? Why do our citizens no longer trust us? In the Puerta del Sol - the seat of the Spanish Revolution - why were they shouting ‘Television: manipulation’?’
The SlutWalk protests came to London last Saturday, as part of a global show of solidarity challenging a 'rape culture' that holds sexual assault survivors partly responsible for crimes against them
By giving one of Britain’s leading bigots a knighthood – by honouring someone who dedicates himself to victimising LGBT children – this Government has shown just how skin deep their support for equality is.
