We British are proud of having reduced our emissions over the past 20 years. But the big picture tells a different story. Real UK emissions, taking account of the goods we consume from overseas, continues to rise.
Just one year ago, it was revealed that the intelligence services knew former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed had been tortured. Now the Coalition is seeking to introduce measures that would prevent the courts releasing intelligence-sharing information at all: thus ensuring that cases such
This week, the government will unveil its review of Britain’s international development budget. The Coalition’s vision for the future of British aid lies in partnerships with business. But to privatize the fulfillment of our international responsibilities would be dangerous, misguided and a waste
Part three of the 'The Last Utopia: Thatcher, New Labour and the Cameron Conservatives and the Demise of Social Democratic Britain'. OurKingdom has published the paper as three consecutive posts.
We may be seeing a new wave of university occupations in the run up to the big TUC march against cuts on March 26th.
Following a national day of action
Part one of the 'The Last Utopia: Thatcher, New Labour and the Cameron Conservatives and the Demise of Social Democratic Britain'. OurKingdom will be publishing the paper as three consecutive posts.
The Coalition’s plans for higher education rest upon an anachronistic view of learning, which separates the 'practical' sciences from the humanities, viewed as a financial drain with no earthly use. Chris Parton looks to emerging interdisciplinary and conscilient fields for a way forward.
I had the interesting experience of being treated like a well-meaning but fuzzy-headed utopian on Monday night when I spoke at Cambridge Labour party’s AGM about fighting the cuts.
How is dissent understood in the UK by those tasked with its “facilitation”? Several sources have emerged in the last month which give an indication of the contradictory environment in which public order policing is evolving.
Of all the public services being hit by the cuts, those dealing with issues considered to be private are suffering the most. But what does “public” and “private” mean, in this context? In order to fight the cuts, we must challenge the traditional hierarchies of public - private; high - low; man -
