A pleasant discussion with the authors of the first book on the new young leader of the Labour Party fails to light at least one person's touchpaper.
The British research culture has shifted. The obligation to publish, the obscure ranking system, the need to deliver 'value for money', together raise a fundamental question: What is the relationship between research and the neo-liberal order?
UK universities are under pressure to research one of the government's key policy ideas - but they are resisting. The campaign to remove the 'Big Society' from the AHRC's research delivery plan is crucial for the integrity of higher education
Ed Miliband is following in New Labour's footsteps and keeping distance from the unions. But within the labour movement lie the skills, know-how and creativity needed to discover economic alternatives and make change happen
Financial regulation in the wake of the credit crisis is a simpler matter than the re-moralising advocated by Roger Scruton (Unreal Estates). Simply return to the regulatory environment pre-1999 and press on with transparency in markets
Britain's 50 per cent tax rate for high earners isn't slowing growth. But many of the rich don't want to pay, so they're fighting dirty for its abolition
England's schools are being privatised by stealth.
The majority of British voters want to keep the NHS public. The Prime Minister was elected on the promise of no major health reform. So why is parliament backing the Health and Social Care Bill, against the known wishes of the electorate?
After England's riots, the Prime Minister has pledged to replace the Human Rights Act with "our own British bill of rights". But the HRA is already quintessentially British, and the rights it enshrines are needed more than ever if we are to heal 'Broken Britain'
David Cameron pledged in the wake of England's riots to address the country's 'rights not responsibilities' culture. Will the Liberal Democrats stand firm against the Prime Minister's hostility to human rights legislation?
Today the trial of nine UK Uncut activists begins. They had superglued themselves to Topshop last year in protest against tax avoidance by the super-rich. Their trial comes at a pivotal time, as England undergoes a post-riots crackdown on the right to protest
