The UK's immigration courts have been criticised for unfairness and lack of due process for years. Today, a report is published containing observations from trained members of the public who attended immigration bail hearings in 2010. Nearly half found the court proceedings to be irregular.
When Gordon Brown was Britain's Prime Minister Nick Pearce headed his Policy Unit in No 10. Now he casts an experienced eye over David Cameron's attempts to guide the Coalition's governing strategy
[The Liberal Democrat Spring Conference was held in Sheffield over this weekend. Yesterday, Saturday 12 March, there was an unusually large public protest reported on below by Vicky Seddon who
Patrick Dunleavy finds essential reading for academics in the run up to the AV referendum in Alan Renwick’s recent book.
The announcement that children's charity Barnardo’s will work with the Coalition in the proposed replacement for Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre throws into stark relief the dilemma facing children's advocates in the UK. Should they be accomplices to contentious policy, or stand back and ma
Those filling in the 2011 National Census in England and Wales are not offered the option of including 'English' or 'Welsh' as part of their ethnic-group identity. In other words, according to 'British' officialdom, 'English' and 'Welsh' are white-only terms.
Britain's responsibility to protect the Libyan people from Gaddafi's crack-down is unavoidable. We must not be so fixated on our past mistakes in Iraq and Afghanistan that we fail to help Libya to free itself. Let's pressure our government now to back a no-fly-zone and break with Britain's sorry p
