Ongoing education reforms in Britain and the US are set in the context of wider issues concerning marketisation, neoliberalism and political protest.
Most children detained in the new “I can’t believe it’s not detention” facilities are held for more than 72 hours.
Should local charities help commercial outsourcers maximize their profits from welfare to work schemes? Do we want our relationship with the state brokered by the private sector? A UK charity leader speaks out.
Proposed reforms to party funding would help to remove 'big money' from British politics. But they won't address the underlying problem: the gulf between Westminster and the public.
In unscripted remarks, the UK Prime Minister revealed his true agenda: he wants to turn our universal health care system into “a fantastic business”. Not patient choice but choice of patient will be the order of the day.
Last summer, Democratic Audit published an explosive paper on the growing influence of the corporate and financial sectors on British democracy. OurKingdom is publishing a series of updates on the paper, of which this is the first.
The exchange rate is the most important single price in the economy: it determines the price of goods for export and the real value of foreign-owned debt. The UK needs a more competitive external sector and can achieve it by much greater quantitative easing
The leading religious authority of the Church of England has disappointed many of the hopes invested in him. Rowan Williams has indeed failed to address the challenges facing the Church and the Anglican Communion, not least its historic entanglement with state power. This is the project that his s
On the union-led 'March For The Alternative' in London last March, 145 protestors were arrested for peacefully occupying a luxury store. Here, one of the ten found guilty speaks out on his trial.
Damien Hirst's most revolting spectacle will go on display in an exhibition of Blairism that should be an occasion for national shame - instead it will compete for gawping crowds with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. If you are from the UK, go and see it dressed in black.
Following a drug policy conference held in the House of Lords last week, prominent figures, including the former head of MI5, called on the UK Government to consider legalising drugs. Current policy creates misery and criminalises individuals and communities. Mat Southwell calls for a return to th
