When all things are taken into account, the UK is in effect investing nothing in its future economy. The coalition may have conjured some temporary growth, but we need serious change if we wish to avoid long term decline.
We need to get rid of the unfair advantages enjoyed by the privatisers but let’s not undermine democracy in a different way instead with more diktats from central government.
Jeremy Gilbert reflects on the life and work of Stuart Hall, who died Monday aged 82.
Men are more likely to be criminal, violent, alcoholic and suicidal. That’s their own fault, right? Last weekend’s Being a Man festival revealed a world that has turned its back on men’s problems.
The British education system reflects long-standing social division. A recent Social Market Foundation paper proposes reforms combining variations of previous attempts with radical marketisation of state education. Is a better functioning market the way to improve access to good schools, or will i
To be free of Westminster's distant and venal elite is something the English should support - if the Scots can manage it, perhaps one day England might too.
War is said to be too serious a business to be left to the soldiers. By the same token, military history is too serious to be left to the politicians. When politicians pontificate about the past it is rarely in the disinterested pursuit of a complex truth.
Even if the vote is a No, independence is now a firm and plausible option which won't go away.
The 50p tax rate would apparently have minimal impact but also be devastating to the UK economy. It's worth recalling similar arguments made against the 1981 proposal for a maximum salary cap of four times average wage.
It's not just the money, it's the direction our marketised universities are taking - enormous rewards at the top combined with a race to the bottom approach for all other staff, and a system of fees that is exacerbating inequality. It's wrong and we oppose it.
