The death of an Angolan man on a deportation flight from the UK highlights the increasingly brutal and unaccountable manner in which the country's borders are policed.
The current debate over higher education funding in the UK ignores the crucial point that information is becoming cheaper and easier to produce, challenging the monopoly of the university in public life.
Members of the Arab League may seek direct United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state as Netanyahu approved further settlement construction in East Jerusalem. The US expresses its concerns over UK defence cuts. Aid workers are kidnapped in Somalia. All this and more, in today’s security upd
An elite-level ‘fix’ to the question of party funding reform in the UK offers no prospect of tackling popular discontent with politics. Reform must be rooted in clear democratic principles.
The current issue of the Spectator claims to be investigating the political and social elites that form the "new establishment" in the UK. Yet this leading conservative journal has no interest in mapping the wider networks of real power and privilege of which it is a part.
Will the UK Coalition cut away consumer protection?
The era of Scottish Labour influence at Westminster is coming to an end.
How Blair continues to be surprisingly superficial despite the length of his memoir.
The Cameron government may find it hard ask everyone to share the burden when it can't stopping living the high life.
A recent report shows a loud but persistent minority are uncomfortable with the portrayal of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people in programmes aimed at child audiences on the BBC. Tom Wicker argues that the on-screen lives of lesbian, gay and bisexual people need to consist of more than confron
The new leaders of Britain's government would like to be one-nation Tories, the times may not let them.
