Ed Miliband, one of the frontrunners for the Labour leadership, answers questions on political reform, civil liberty and the English Question.
I've just got back from a superlative evening of entertainment and political discussion at the Cut's Won't Work benefit gig at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club.
How will the left respond to the clear challenge of the Conservatives' Big Society idea? Niki Seth Smith talks to leading people and institutions on the left to ask them how they see it, beginning with Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society who blogs at Next Left.
OurKingdom launches an investigation into the challenges of the Big Society.
Whatever your views on the Conservatives' Big Society idea for the UK, it seems reasonable to ask what our political leaders are doing to help realise an idea they are so keen to promote. That is what a recent survey of MPs aims to do – but the approach isn’t free from controversy
The final week of voting is under way in the Labour leadership election with the new leader set to be announced in Manchester on Saturday. Whoever is chosen as leader will be expected to set out their approach on political reform. In order to inform the debate, OurKingdom has asked each of the can
The importance of the Pope's visit, or is it the unimportance, which if so would itself be significant is that it is a matter of State.
What should be asked, loud and clear, is why are supposedly modern Conservatives defending the First Past the Post-system (FPTP) when it flies in the face of at least four core Tory values:
Presidential run-off elections in Guinea are postponed after a weekend of violence and ongoing delays in preparation. Four of the most senior surviving Khmer Rouge cadres indicted In Cambodia. eight killed in minibus blast in southeast Turkey. Growing row over Trident renewal threatens coalition.
There's a particularly witty hashtag doing the rounds on Twitter at the moment which I couldn't resist sharing. The spikedinthe18thcentury tweets involve mock-headlines that can be enjoyed by anyone with a passing knowledge of the 18th century and Spiked's bizarre brand of posturing contrarianism.
The performance of New Labour in government, its defeat in the general election and the potential legacy of its 13 years in power came under sustained and informed scrutiny at
Having published two books about Blair, John Morrison was interested to find out if what he had written about the psychology of the former Prime Minister fitted the self-portrait to be found of The Journey.
