There is a vindictive streak, pleasure and glee even, on the left about the political disarray and electoral collapse of the Lib Dems. However it is not in the interests of progressive politics, or even of Labour, for the Lib Dems to collapse into anarchy or disunity.
Yesterday, the Guardian published Anthony Barnett's damning analysis of a document being hailed as the foundation of a codified constitution.
There are many different kinds of magic trick, but for all of them, one technique is the most important: misdirection. Of the many practitioners of such magic, David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science, is one of the best.
Wikileaks showed that the incoming British government was desperate for American approval, perhaps they should rethink their education cuts
How could parliament ram through the fees increase in three hours plus a short session in the Lords tomorrow?
A sweeping response to Peter Kellner's argument for Labour to be the party of the British people and the call by Neal Lawson and John Harris for a 'New Socialism'
The explosive conflict over higher education demands a rethink across British society about what it should deliver and who should pay for it.
Driving the new wave of protests in England especially is a generational divide that is economic and cultural: the system traded on the alienation of the young from it but it was never mere passivity and now it started to erupt.
The Big Society must articulate its vision and define its expected outcomes, or face fading from the political landscape.
The ‘new ruins’ – poorly designed and shoddy shopping malls and mass-produced housing – are ubiquitous throughout our cities. Ken Worpole finds that Owen Hatherley is a witty and erudite gazetteer of terrible mistakes, but wonders if the acerbic author is as fair as he could be
A student protest in central London reveals the ugly face of an unaccountable government and the angry one of an alienated young generation, finds Delwar Hussain.
We now have the image that will define this age of retrenchment and rebellion, splashed across all the frontpages this morning. Even Grosvenor Square '68 can't compete with that kind of iconography. But the real images of the night were not of the violent black-flag brigade, nor of the middle clas
