An eighteen-year-old trafficked girl Y, subjected to years of exploitation and abuse, broke her silence today in an interview with Dan Foster, at the Children’s Legal Centre
When a Nato spokesperson is lecturing at one of the top British universities, it's clear that the autonomy of higher education is under threat
A new report, "Leafleting: A Liberty Lost?", finds that councils are cracking down on leafleting by local groups such as arts organisations and the WI - yet are increasing spending on their own council leaflets
The Coalition's proposed reforms to English higher education treat students as customers, and education as a financial transaction where pursuit of profit is the only determinant of value
The happiness agenda imagines people as individuals living constantly in the now. But in this age of uncertainty, there is a pressing need to recognise the importance of history, relationships, identity and agency to personal wellbeing
Trade unions and the anti-cuts movement are gearing up for a UK-wide strike over pension reforms. Yet the left still haven't worked through the failures of their last mass action against the Coalition. A central issue is the need for the unions to ally themselves with network politics
Senior academics across the UK are taking action against the politicisation of research, in response to the announcement that Cameron's 'Big Society' is to be a research funding priority for the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Is this the beginning of a wider resistance from within the insti
The launch of the for-profit ‘elite’ university, the New College for the Humanities, must be understood in the context of the Coalition’s wider programme to marketise higher education. The first article in OurKingdom’s series 'Capitalism and the University' analyses the big picture
The University is one of the defining institutions of society, and today it is under threat. In a new debate section, 'Capitalism and the University', OurKingdom will analyse the marketisation of British higher education
Many Muslims living in the UK today feel like 'conditional Britons'. As the Coalition reinvigorate the flawed counter-terrorism strategy 'Prevent', the former secretary general of Muslim Council of Britain discusses the demonisation of his community
