Post-crash Britain faces an enormous challenge: to create a new structure for British governance and public discourse. At the Labour conference, Ed Miliband took the first steps towards accepting that great and terrifying challenge.
The left must end their tribal Tory-bashing. The Conservative party today is thoughtful, and has ideas for post-crash Britain where the left are dragging their heels.
Constant fear, routine humiliation, no escape: this isn't prison, but life on incapacity benefit in the United Kingdom. There is another way: one that respects human dignity.
The Labour Party doesn't know what to do or say about immigration. Last week's conference was a case in point, as two leading thinkers offered radical proposals for tightening immigration that even they admitted are unworkable.
'David' suffered child abuse, and developed a disorder that led him to kill a man who for him symbolised his abusers. He was labelled DSPD and must prove he is a 'reduced risk' before his release. But how can he, when DSPD is not a medical diagnosis, but a political construct?
Much has been written about the Cameron visit to Moscow and why it apparently failed to do much to improve the chill in relations between Russia and Britain. We are very different, but that does not mean there is no way forward. Some kind of relationship can be developed, but the rules of the game
The right in Britain increasingly dominates the discourse on all major political issues. Is the answer for the left to move to the centre? Or can it pull the centre towards itself?
Urging a 'revising of New Labour', The Purple Book refuses to acknowledge the mistakes of the Blairite era. What it does show is that Britain is in a new age of 'colour politics', where flux and confusion reigns as we struggle to find an alternative to market fundamentalism.
A tobacco corporation is attempting to access confidential data on teenagers' smoking habits, obtained by university researchers. Just one case where Freedom of Information benefits companies against the public interest.
