"Environmentalism, which in its raw, early form had no time for the encrusted, seized-up politics of left and right, has been sucked into the yawning, bottomless chasm of the 'progressive' left." A personal, twenty-year journey through the world’s wild places and the movements to protect them is a
There is a wonderfully clever, cunning piece on Labour Uncut by Anthony Painter applying ten lessons from English football to Labour's contest for a new manager/team captain.
The approach to juvenile lawbreakers in Russia and in England & Wales is more punitive than in other European countries. Why do we put young offenders behind bars?In this article Mary McAuley highlights some of the questions she has addressed in her new book ‘Children in Custody’.
The general election revealed widening fissures in the UK's multi-national state that lie behind the hanging of parliament
England has not been an issue in the UK election and it did not figure in the leaders debates. But it could explode into prominence if there is a hung parliament.
A front line account of the experience of being tested rather than taught under Blair. A recent UK school-leaver reports on what is was really like for the new generation educated since the Tories were in power
As the political parties decompose a forgotten nation haunts the British general election - and Brown's only chance of holding on to office is likely to be at its expense.
Labour's election manifesto published today is an uncertain trumpet, its off-key notes exposed by an incisive comparison of its English-British and Scottish versions
English Votes on English Laws and Power 2010
An OurKingdom conversation. [History: Gareth Young > this post > Peter Facey ]
Readers may be sadly familiar with the TV ad for Country Life butter, in which former punk rocker
We’re now into the last week of the Power2010 online vote and there appears to be just one competition: English votes on English laws v. an elected second chamber