The Howard League for Penal Reform launches this year’s John Howard Essay Prize on OurKingdom. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 MARCH
A new report from Prison Reform Trust’s Care not Custody programme offers professionals practical advice on helping vulnerable young people in England and Wales.
The chair of the English Arts Council for the last four years was removed by the Coalition. In her valedictory speech she sets out her case for the arts over the millenia and makes a moving appeal to the Secretary of State for Education.
For a brief overview of the regulations and context, we publish here a short note from Lucy Reynolds. We published the full story on section 75 here.
An EU-US drive to harmonise services - particularly health - is critical to the NHS reforms. As the Trade Commission acknowledged, without the financial crash this would not have been possible. Britain's 'shock' programme continues.
Regulations laid last week will turn England's National Health Service into a competitive market. They appear to contradict assurances from the Coalition government on one of the most central elements of the Bill.
The failures uncovered by the Francis report go far beyond the compassion of individual nurses and managers, they are a clear warning sign on the dangers of turning a public health service into a competitive market. The British public can see it, why can't the government?
The denizens of the British State want to prevent their activities being judged in open court and will undermine a fundamental principle of the rule of law to have their way. If the Liberal Democrat leadership does not stop them there is no point in their party's existence.
Addressing the problem of middle Britain today will prove key to the future of the country and its politics. The Labour party has begun to recognise this, but what path will it take?
While the Baha Mousa inquiry "may have shone a torch into a dark corner", what is now before the court is more like "a stadium in which we will switch on the floodlights".
Romania is a country of attraction and danger for the British. Today it's contaminated slaughterhouses and the threat of a new influx of immigrants. But this discourse plays into a historical narrative that can be traced to the Nineteenth Century, Count Dracula and further back into the mists of t
Scotland's experience cannot be compared to a brutal dictatorship, yet there are parallels to be drawn between the debate over the coming independence referendum and the anti-Pinochet campaign as depicted in the recently released film 'NO'. Can a message of hope and fun work in Scotland as it did
