We can no longer have a welfare system where recipients get something for nothing. So says the Labour leader, but before lecturing benefit claimants on their rights and responsibilities, he would do well to examine the root causes of wage inequality and unemployment in this country
As new patterns of racial violence emerge throughout the UK, anti-racist campaigners need to forge new solidarities based on an understanding of local realities
Private contractors are “out of control” and Amnesty International calls for a complete overhaul of UK immigration removals
The Labour Party is rightly undergoing a wholesale review of policy, and Blue Labour has done more than any other idea to prompt this debate. Labour MP David Lammy discusses the idea, it's impact on his party and influence on the political landscape
The coordinated bomb-attacks on London’s transport network on 7 July 2005 (“7/7”) left dozens dead and hundreds wounded, and marked the lives of millions in the city and beyond. The political, intellectual and security issues raised by the event were extensively discussed on openDemocracy in the e
The Coalition's benefit cap plans would lead to tens of thousands of families losing their homes. The government, unworried by that reality, is however concerned about the news that the proposal won't save Britain any money after all
Rising rents in the UK are making hardship harder, while low interest rates transfer wealth from the have-not's to the have's. Can we be doing something more sensible?
Children are being routinely detained by inadequately-trained staff for long periods in immigration lock-ups at Heathrow Airport. This is despite the British government's claims to have ended child detention for immigration purposes
