Can the underdog snatch the crown with a last minute surge? Will the second preferences swing it? With only a few days left of voting the country awaits with baited breath the outcome of....
How will the left respond to the clear challenge of the Conservatives' Big Society project? Niki Seth Smith is asking the leading people and institutions on the left how they view the idea, as part of OK's debate on the Challenge of the Big Society. Neal Lawson, chair of Compass, furthers the disc
There was a fascinating response from former Labour minister Stephen Timms MP at the weekend to a speech made by Baroness Warsi last week criticising Labour in Government for undermining “the positive power of faith” and suggesting that the Coalition government would "do God"
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:
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