The announcement that children's charity Barnardo’s will work with the Coalition in the proposed replacement for Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre throws into stark relief the dilemma facing children's advocates in the UK. Should they be accomplices to contentious policy, or stand back and ma
Those filling in the 2011 National Census in England and Wales are not offered the option of including 'English' or 'Welsh' as part of their ethnic-group identity. In other words, according to 'British' officialdom, 'English' and 'Welsh' are white-only terms.
Britain's responsibility to protect the Libyan people from Gaddafi's crack-down is unavoidable. We must not be so fixated on our past mistakes in Iraq and Afghanistan that we fail to help Libya to free itself. Let's pressure our government now to back a no-fly-zone and break with Britain's sorry p
The Youth Hostel Association was founded to help all, especially young people of limited means, to enjoy the countryside. Now the YHA is planning to sell off eight hostels, to be returned into the hands of the financially privileged.
On International Women's Day, Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench team up for a short film on the need for gender equality.
Marriage is one of the metrics to be included in the Coalition’s soon-to-launch ‘well-being index’, as Clegg and Cameron wave away questions of social collapse to ask, with melting sincerity, if we are truly happy. But how do we measure marital bliss? And is happiness all its cracked up to be?
Esme Madill, a consultant in the not for profit sector, spoke last night at a celebration of a London project for Somali children. She asked, if Cameron is calling on us to defend the values of the host community, who is part of this group? Can we have too many community groups, or too much cultur
What a nasty invidious campaign the ‘No to the Alternative Vote’ side are running. From the opening shot of David Cameron’s speech to the offensive sensationalism of the current adverts, this is a negative campaign armed with lies and preying upon ignorance and fear. Confusion, muddy the waters,
The Coalition has not engaged in an analysis of the human rights impact of its austerity programme, nor does it appear to intend to. Is the government violating its obligations to protect the human rights of the British public?
How has a decrease in the stigma attached to homosexuality impacted on the lives of boys in English schools, on their self-images, and on their relationships with one another?
