The Scottish political debate needs to decide to think and act big to respond to growing concerns over inequality, the economy and the state of the public realm.
It is not clear what unites political unionism in Northern Ireland in its present form.
A personal tribute to Claire Rayner, the 'agony aunt', novelist and broadcaster who died this week.
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.
