Viewed from Scotland, England's failure to win the world cup reveals a land that has lost itself, led by a political class of blaggards. But perhaps a different kind of bid for 2030 could show the way for a much better, more original and attractive country.
While the voting day on tuition fees is fast approaching, a substantial number of Lib Dem MPs have not yet declared their hand. Journalist Tom Griffin has compiled a list of all the Liberal MPs, indicating how they are likely to vote on Thursday.
As decision day for Higher Education draws near, it is crucial that the message of the student movement is heard and understood. Yet the intentions of the protesters are being drastically distorted by the media.
The circus of football's world slut and the revelations on Wikileak about Prince Andrew's attitudes suggest that rock bottom is a trough of sludge and the UK is right down there.
Blair was right. Britain is a new country and to prove it more people from the middle-class now vote Labour than from the working-class. The only way the Left can return to power is by building on these facts. So argues the President of YouGov and one of Britain's leading psephologists.
An all-party proposal to replace the House of Lords is about to appear. The word is that they will call for an elected chamber to be called...' The Senate'. How unoriginal can you be?
The Conservative MP, Jesse Norman, this week launches his PFi Rebate campaign, a proposal to raise £500 million by reducing PFi repayments by 0.05%
An in-depth summary of party funding shows that the top three parties rely on attracting just ten or eleven large donations a year between them from a small group of rich people, plus a few companies and large trade unions. This narrow funding base raises issues of fairness. It also helps explain
Defence Secretary Robert Gates urges Congress to allow lesbians and gays to serve openly in US military; Anger and confusion in Ivory Coast, as results of first presidential election in a decade are torn up; British government considers selling its intelligence agencies' services to private compan
In this latest interview in our Big Society Challenge series, Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper, contrasts the coalition's Big Society with ideas of self-organisation that took root in the '60s and '70s. She advocates an unofficial "big society" where communities occupy Big Society rhetor
Shakespeare's relationship to Britain and England needs to be prised from the grip of the banalities of the tourist industry and the heritage trail as we approach the quartercentenary of his death in 2016. We should not allow his work to be press-ganged into supporting the kind of patriotism he bo
