The UK's Coalition has delivered its first and potentially defining budget under the banner of fairness. How do its figures stack up? An insider from Brown's policy team responds.
The European Union may very well be stumbling into recession with Germany and the UK to the fore as they savage public spending. But there are also long-term political problems that the EU’s political classes choose to ignore.
We revisit an article from 2007 meditating on the export of the possible break up of Belgium back across the channel to the country responsible for Belgium's creation in the first place
Professor Vernon Bogdanor, constitutional adviser to the Cameron government, embodies the complacency and conservatism of the British political elite.
A follow up on the author's analysis of Britain's new Coalition government in the light of Cameron's response to the findings of the Bloody Sunday inquiry
After years of taking years of evidence and an expenditure of nearly £200 million, a British Inquiry has dispassionately concluded that the army paratroopers shot 14 innocent people in 1971 without justification, an event that convinced many Northern Ireland Catholics that war had been declared up
The countries of the Eurozone are at a turning point that will decide the future of the continent for decades to come.
Lis Howell reflects on gender balance at the recent Public Service Broadcasting Forum
With the collapse of both the British National Party and George Galloway's left-wing Respect movement at recent elections, east London has been looking forward to a break from radical politics. A threatened march by Islamophobic hooligans has shattered the calm.
“… there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families” This was Margaret Thatcher talking to Women’s Own magazine in October 1987.
The Labour summer show headed northwards; the first UK party leader election since Tony Blair began the New Labour era in 1994. The five Labour candidates along with Iain Gray,
Maybe Kanishk Tharoor is just missing London, but he has gone soft for a commercial version of God Save the Queen. Gareth Young reported on the real choice:
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