Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1973 oil shock. Its consequences are still echoing across the world today.
State interception of postal correspondence marks the first major privacy scandal of modernity. The real question, then as now, is how the public reacts - it is this that will determine the future of state surveillance. And the signs don't look promising.
The world of development NGOs is full of white men from well off backgrounds. One of them wrote about how this is a problem in the Guardian last week, and here, one of their employees responds, looking at who speaks about these things and how; who is heard, and what should be done about it?
Debates over religious freedoms and the threat posed by newcomers are nothing new, yet they miss the point: it is civil society, not the state, that should confront the veil.
A new poll yet again shows the overwhelming popularity of public ownership of public services in the UK. Yet no major political parties reflects this position. Why not?
Co-ops, mutuals, movement building and how to avoid Pasokification of Britain's left - James Doran attended a discussion hosted by Policy Network about the instutitutions of the left and what we can learn from the USA.
A charity director, honoured by the Queen for his work with asylum-seekers and homeless people, tells David Cameron why he has returned his award.
It's not that marriage is good for children, it's that poverty is bad for them. Offering couples tiny tax breaks because they've had a wedding whilst cutting the rest of their benefits is like stealing someone’s car and offering them a bus pass as compensation.
Chris Grayling discribed G4S run prison HMP Oakwood as an "excellent model for the future of the prison service". But a report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons this week tells a very different story...
Historian Linda Colley rejects the idea that British disintegration is inevitable but says a new constitutional settlement is needed to bind the nations and people of the United Kingdom together, and to help clarify its relationship with Europe. The English, she argues, would benefit from having a
