We publish an interview with Angela Phillips, a leading authority on the British media, in the run-up to Lord Justice Leveson's report on the culture, practices and ethics of the UK press.
In Afghanistan, opium is not clandestinely traded on some back alley black market. Opium is the market.
The UK Border Agency’s messy attempt to resolve thousands of outstanding asylum claims has led to yet another day of terrible headlines. But ministers know how to stop this happening again, if they would just have the courage.
One of the first women to be ordained as a priest in the Church of England bitterly regrets the General Synod’s vote against women bishops.
Are Spurs fan's chants of 'Yid army" anti-semitic, as the Society of Black Lawyers have claimed, or this is a case of appropriating terminology as a means of nullifying it?
Police chief elections - what are we to make of the dismal turnout?
Unless we act against education privatisation it will set in and be difficult to reverse. It’s unrolling nationally, and local responses need to operate in a way which engages with this. We shouldn’t be negotiating privatisation. We should be turning it back.
Lord Justice Leveson's public inquiry into UK press standards is about to report. But the unfolding crisis shaking the BBC will muddy the waters. This is a call for delay.
The UK needs to bring forward plans to enfranchise prisoners by Thursday.
In 1962, the late Professor Sir Bernard Crick published his seminal work In Defence of Politics. Fifty years on, formal political processes have never been in greater need of defending. In this article, former Home Secretary David Blunkett MP argues that in order to defend politics we need to chan
The appointment of the new Director General at the BBC must be an open process rather than the current backroom dealing underway. OurBeeb is trying to make this happen - and you can help.
Activists must resist fighting their battles for political reform on the grounds of their enemies' choosing. Serious thought must now be given to how to fight on our own ground, to our own strengths, and what structural changes need to be made to make success a realistic hope.
