James Partridge, whose appearance was transformed by fire when he was 18, campaigns for greater social acceptance and understanding of facial and body diversity. Now he's taking on the film industry
Derry/Londonderry is the UK City of Culture in 2013. In a place where names can be rigid markers of enmity, what tools can we use to dismantle the unseeing ways ‘the enemy’ is passed between generations?
Richard Branson's Virgin Group is lead sponsor of tomorrow's London Marathon. It's “a national institution” says Virgin. “The atmosphere and camaraderie is like nothing else.” One medical student running in the Marathon doesn't like what Virgin is doing to another much-loved national institution.
A by-election earthquake in the post-industrial northern English city of Bradford saw a high-profile politician with a strong appeal among disaffected urban Muslims win an overwhelming victory. This "Bradford spring" reflects the changing attitudes and concerns of Muslim voters in a democracy that
The financial crisis demonstrated extraordinary failures on the part of policy elites and economic experts. And yet we remain governed by technocrats. We need to re-politicise economic policy-making, or else repeat the mistakes of the past.
The UK government is radically cutting support for the disabled. What does that mean for people living with disability?
A fringe play by a prison therapist about the impact of incarceration on femininity presents an intense and brutal world, yet one in which humanity still gets a redeeming look in. Your browser does not support the audio element. var audioTag = document.createElement('audio'); if (!(!!(audioTag.can
Britain’s commitment to liberty has been shown in the last twenty-five years to be a hypocritical charade. The Lib Dems, defenders of civil liberties in opposition, are betraying this position in power. But blaming parties or politicians is a distraction from the real culprit: the British state it
Directly-elected Mayors in England will centralise power, deepen bureaucracy and lead to a politics of celebrity. There are better paths to the enhanced local democracy that we need.
