On the eve of Remembrance Day members of parliament urge the UK government to stop sending under 18-year-olds to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This article is part of a series on the #Occupy movements.
Having spent some time at the occupation at St Paul's I have lately begun to hope that
Currently, by and large, the economic system emerging from the crisis is bound to be substantially very similar to the pre-crisis one, improved in some respects, but worsened by large scale cuts in welfare expenditure made necessary by the (debatable) purpose of achieving fiscal balance. The post-
The Cabinet Manual is as close to a written constitution as Britain has. But there are dangers that it has been written as a guide to how ministers think we should be governed, not an account of how the constitution works in practice. And will it be followed at all?
The bitter hostility between Labour and SNP is also mirrored in cultural, religious, sporting and psychological oppositions. It would benefit politics and people to move beyond such monochrome divisions
The Coalition's constitutional reform plans are set to undermine Britain's balance of party political structures. A recent select committee report sets out the dangers and recommends how to avert them.
The Home Secretary and her officials tripped over no less than three ‘banana skin’ issues last weekend. But are lessons being learned on immigration in Britain?
The sub-Hollywood spectacle of the new Batman film - being shot in Wall Street - provides a striking contrast to the unheroic determination of the protesters in Zucotti Park.
Last week's discussion at the Frontline Club - with OurKingdom associate editor Aaron Peters and others - looking at the aims and potential of the global occupations movement.
Alternative histories are written by alternative victors. If Guy Fawkes had won ... British history would have sounded very different... (originally published, November 5th 2009)
An activist witnesses deportees transported to Stansted airport in buses emblazoned with the company logo: Just Go!
