Resistance to viewing women as a homogenous block can all too often provide politicians with an excuse to ignore women altogether. Women hold half the electorate’s voting power: which party will be brave enough to reach out for their vote at the next General Election?
Unless we act against education privatisation it will set in and be difficult to reverse. It’s unrolling nationally, and local responses need to operate in a way which engages with this. We shouldn’t be negotiating privatisation. We should be turning it back.
Lord Justice Leveson's public inquiry into UK press standards is about to report. But the unfolding crisis shaking the BBC will muddy the waters. This is a call for delay.
Leading politicians and health professionals meet in London tomorrow to discuss the future of child health in the UK. Ahead of the Westminster Health Forum seminar — ‘Improving children’s and young people’s health: towards a health outcomes strategy and meeting public health challenges’ — OurKingd
The UK needs to bring forward plans to enfranchise prisoners by Thursday.
If "destitutes" across the UK can stand up and act together we can make a difference: we are ready to meet the authorities at the negotiating table, says Nancy Bonongwe.
When hostile reviews are orchestrated.
In 1962, the late Professor Sir Bernard Crick published his seminal work In Defence of Politics. Fifty years on, formal political processes have never been in greater need of defending. In this article, former Home Secretary David Blunkett MP argues that in order to defend politics we need to chan
The appointment of the new Director General at the BBC must be an open process rather than the current backroom dealing underway. OurBeeb is trying to make this happen - and you can help.
Activists must resist fighting their battles for political reform on the grounds of their enemies' choosing. Serious thought must now be given to how to fight on our own ground, to our own strengths, and what structural changes need to be made to make success a realistic hope.
The NHS saved her life. The UK Border Agency plans to send her to her death. Public support ahead of 21 November appeal hearing may be Roseline Akhalu’s last hope.
