Despite cross-party consensus that democracy must no longer be a stranger to the second chamber, a few naysayers are still arguing against real reform of 'the mother of all parliaments'. The Select Committee must, finally, get the job done.
A peculiarly British paralysis is the inheritance of a Burkean experience of time - we incur debts now in return for the promise of an ever-receding future. Yet a sense of immediacy is returning as part of a 'post-British' era.
A review of UNPROVOKED, a new play about girl-on-girl knife crime in London.
The privatisation of English higher education is bitingly analysed in this essential collection of essays. Does the book mark a new wave of opposition to corporate ideology from within England's universities?
UK governments talk loudly about controlling immigration but seem unable even to count in who visits Britain. Now, it seems, private incomers have been waived through in advance. Who were they?
Reflections on Jeremy Paxman's book, 'Empire: What ruling the world did to the British'.
The plight of young carers in Britain is described by a benefits adviser at Cambridge Citizens Advice Bureau.
Britain is a democracy, with freedom of speech and the right to protest. There is no need to be 'disruptive' and uncivilized' in order to make your voice heard. What a comforting myth!
The referendum on Scottish independence is now inevitable, but will the UK Government initiate a poll?
A new play at the Roundhouse tackles girl-on-girl knife crime.
