By maintaining the moral and social umbilical cord with "home", modern communications technologies are causing major difficulties in the functioning of mass migration.
My partner Alfie Meadows was nearly killed when a police officer hit his head with a truncheon at a demo. After Alfie was charged with 'violent disorder', I was so viscerally angry I stopped being able to feel temperature. Part of Transformation's politics of mental health series.
News that the British government has accepted Cornwall as a national minority may be a cynical attempt to win a couple of marginal seats, but it should be welcomed.
In both Mexico and the UK political apathy seems to be on the increase, on general trends at least. If citizens see little tangible connection between their vote, their wishes and public policy, voting comes to be seen as a waste of time.
Filthy cells with broken windows, open to the elements. Life in England's worst prison — and it's for young people.
A Parliamentary watchdog reports on the dangerous consequences of an ill-conceived, badly planned and poorly executed rush to privatise
The first three of forty reasons to support Scottish independence - geography, numbers, and sociology...
Andy Burnham and John Healey's statments on the risks to the NHS of the trade deal between the EU and the US seem at odds. Labour should be speaking clearly for the NHS.
Why did an ad in a local British paper create such a furore?
More children in UK rely on food aid than ever before. What chance of tackling the complexities of poverty if the government is not even working to prevent children from going hungry?
The author talks about his new book, an extract of which OurKingdom has published here.
