Faith groups and charities must join the medical profession in strong, relentless and effective opposition to the government's wrecking of the NHS.
Regulatory reform of Britain's media is coming: the question is how, and when. This year's annual Oxford event brought the big players together to wrangle over the future of the press.
Britain is on the brink of a double-dip recession. She needs to begin the fundamental reshaping of her political economy... and this is where I'd start.
"How the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 would end entitlement to comprehensive health care in England" republished from The Lancet with thanks.
Being English is not a question of blood, of purity: it has always been a multi-racial alliance.
Warehousing troubled children in large prisons does not work.
Around the globe, new forms of governance are being sought to counter-balance the hyper-empire of global capitalism. Scotland is developing its own resistance, could England follow suit?
An increasingly assertive English nationalism; the prospect of an independent Scotland; the economic crisis.... the English question is ready to explode. Evasion tactics are deeply embedded, but even these are about to fail.
We in England will lose our publicly funded, publicly provided and publicly accountable healthcare system — unless we fight for it.
This week, the Lords battles it out with the government over the fate of Britain's benefits system. Faced with a small army including bishops, Lib Dems and enraged disability campaigners, their tactics are getting tougher and dirtier.
A new report has been launched in Westminster on how to restructure democratic institutions to take care of future generations.
