Nick Clegg forfeited my trust when he took his party into a coalition on an agreement to accept a deficit reduction programme that was both harsh and fast, and to
Former Iraqi foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, sentenced to death. Ex-‘child soldier’ pleads guilty at Guantanamo. UK police receive terror training. Transparency international ranks war-torn countries as 'most corrupt'. All this and more in today’s security briefing.
Last week, the government sneaked into their Security Review a proposal to revive mass Internet surveillance.
Under the Kafka-esque title of the “Intercept Modernisation Programme”, this would mean interception
We need an honest public debate about welfare that moves beyond the comforting certainties of "Tory cuts" versus "welfare scroungers" - people's lives depend on it.
A new book by Dan Hind provides a welcome set of proposals to democratise public debate through a system of citizen-led editorial commissioning, but his focus on the mass media ignores the potential of other more democratic channels of communication.
The £260 billion worth of commitments tied up in Britain's "public, private" state must be opened up to transparency and scrutiny, argues a new OurKingdom report.
Stuart Wilks-Heeg asks whether ‘reduce and equalise’ is a solution in search of a problem. What is certain is that in the case of Cornwall, the Isle of Wight,
The freeze to the BBC licence fee announced on Wednesday was a defeat for viewers and listeners, for BBC staff, for the independence of one of our most respected institutions, for the principles underlying the licence fee and for the whole of public service broadcasting.
The British government’s new defence strategy gestures towards the real security challenges of the 21st century while remaining locked overall in an outmoded vision. But the seeds of new thinking, beyond and even inside the state, will grow.
Important news on the civil liberties front. It turns out that when the government promised they'd "end the storage of internet and email records without good reason&
We are all here to stay and we like it this way
