How should the 'Yes' campaign in the coming referendum pitch its case for 'AV'?
The second of a wide-ranging three part conversation, touching on the state of British politics and democracy and how the left - weak and disorganised in the face of a resurgent neoliberalism - can propose and build alternatives to the dominant dogmas of the past thirty years.
The debate over the Spirit Level continues
Pakistani and British officials meet ahead of Zardari visit to London. One killed as rockets fired from Sinai towards Israel and Jordan. President Obama confirms US combat troop withdrawal from Iraq. Iranian president calls for one-on-one television debate with US president. Chechen leader hands o
With the Coalition government rushing forward while simultaneously seeking to preserve and contain, what matters is not just whether there is a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ vote in the AV referendum, but also the way in which the outcome comes about.
Court scrutiny of the British security services is to be welcomed; we can't debate properly our security needs without openness.
A BBC documentary on the creation of the UK's Coalition poses some interesting questions about what happened.
Ahead of the UK Feminista summer school this weekend, OK co-editor Anthony Barnett and director of IPPR Nick Pearce discuss what can be done to rectify the woeful under-representation of women in UK politics and public life.
After a drubbing in the press, the Welsh-language TV channel S4C needs champions
Keith Simpson has in the words of his own website issued ‘his famous Summer Reading List’. Simpson is Tory MP for Broadland, currently PPS to the Foreign Secretary, and has
The government's "Big Society" approach to citizenship endangers other successful community initiatives.
The historian of Engels and the English Civil War has become a Labour MP with an interest in constitutional reform. But what kind of interest?
