The Labour leader summoned the ghost of 19th century Tory leader Disraeli in his speech to conference last week. So how do the two British politicians compare?
“In my life I will forget lots of things, but I will never, ever forget those two small boys … left behind in the snow.” Elizabeth Kennedy reports on children’s journeys from Afghanistan to England and life in limbo as they approach 18.
The powerful impact of a new installation in London by Russian architect Alexander Brodsky
The 'secret courts bill' is heading through the Lords, just as former ministers and MI6 officials face the prospect of public court appearances over torture allegations.
Youth justice policy in England is focused on risk, leading young people to be labelled as 'pre-criminals' and intervention undertaken before they have broken the law. Is this a kafkaesque nightmare, or a common sense approach to stopping crime before it occurs?
While the Labour party goes mad for Miliband’s speech, the First Minister of Wales is leading a nation. Time for those outside of Wales to pay close attention to the most senior elected Labour politician in the UK.
Lord Justice Leveson is gearing up to report on Britain's public inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of its press. The national newspapers are running scared, with many doing what they do best in the face of a threat to their interests: protecting themselves by misinforming the public.
Starting this week, eleven million workers in companies without a pension scheme will be automatically enrolled into a new pension fund. It’s called, reassuringly, NEST (National Employment Savings Trust). But it’s managed by scandal-hit investment banks. We republish Mel Kelly’s exposé from Octob
You might say the Shadow Chancellor had an easy job yesterday, persuading the Labour conference and the world outside that he is a better man than Osborne to hold the wheel of the sinking British economy. But while Balls may have succeeded in sounding credible, there was no big Labour vision for t
Electronic monitoring is no substitute for drug and alcohol rehabilitation, mental health support and literacy coaching.
Jobs are disappearing in the UK, wages are dropping, and there is a shocking absence of political debate about the changing nature of work and the disappearance of full-time secure employment.
How people sharing personal experiences through a museum digital storytelling project use ideas of courtesy instead of rights to revise institutional legitimacy; a hopeful kind of modesty which might come in handy in reimagining a public service ethos in the face of the UK’s public sector cuts.
