Labour has been accused of politicking, rather than acting on principle when it comes to Lords reform. But this is a dirty game, and they were justified in using the issue to frustrate the Liberal/Conservative partnership - not only that, but there is yet more to be done.
The BNP's latest electoral defeats are no indication that the attraction of its ideology has faded away. New social movements in Britain are seeking to impart change through extra-parliamentary means.
Contemporary Britain already has a more-or-less intelligible public moral theory that guides much of its laws and policy. Unfortunately, this public theory is virtually silent on the matter of immigration.
The politics of the market has given us individual freedoms, but inhibited any potent form of collectivity. We cannot return to the regulated social life that enabled a 'Fordist' democracy to function. So what now? Neoliberals are terrified of the emerging potential for a dynamic pluralist and dem
The government was forced this week to abandon a vote on a timetable for the Lords Reform Bill, kicking reform of the upper chamber into the long grass once more. Why didn't Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg propose a genuinely democratic House of Lords as part of a plan for a clean, strong politic
The challenge for UK firms is a serious one - how to conform to the industry’s best practices which they preach in a country where the standard practice is so poor?
The punitive language of retribution ignores common sense, justice and compelling evidence of what works, and the new language of the market degrades our penal system, demeaning the tens of thousands of people within its walls.
As the number of families in Britain with at least one working parent fall below the poverty threshold and 'payday loans' show a steep rise, Barbara Gunnell asks : who benefits from the British bargain-basement low-wage economy?
Britain's most senior judges are far removed from the make-up of the general population. The first new appointment to the Supreme Court, Eton-educated Jonathan Sumption, fits the general mould. But more than his astronomical wealth, his beliefs on the proper limitations of the judicial process are
The Euro was the ultimate in supply side economics, designed to perform exactly as it has done in an economic crisis - strip away traditional economic tools of recovery and push states into "internal devaluation", privatisation and attacks on labour rights. It's performing perfectly.
Underpinning the Euro crisis is a collection of mismatches, of cultures, institutions, expectations and norms between varied European actors and, critically, debtors and creditors. Europe will not survive without unification to smoothe and manage these differences, but it need not be as painful or
