The Youth Hostel Association was founded to help all, especially young people of limited means, to enjoy the countryside. Now the YHA is planning to sell off eight hostels, to be returned into the hands of the financially privileged.
Scotland has received praise of late for encouraging social inclusion, bringing about a strong sense of national identity. England is placed in contrast, as a country that wants everyone to 'be like one of us' and become English. What nonsense. Today's England has failed to foster any sense of civ
On International Women's Day, Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench team up for a short film on the need for gender equality.
What is it about football that gets men in Scotland so passionate that they can't control themselves? Why can't we acknowledge that this is about Scottish men - male behaviour, violence and abuse - and stop blaming disadvantaged communities?
Fred Halliday (1946-2010), openDemocracy author and Director-Designate of the LSE Middle East Centre, 2006-2008, did not want the LSE to accept a £1.5m grant. He wrote this memo to the University's governing body in October 2009 to try to convince them to give up the money.
Marriage is one of the metrics to be included in the Coalition’s soon-to-launch ‘well-being index’, as Clegg and Cameron wave away questions of social collapse to ask, with melting sincerity, if we are truly happy. But how do we measure marital bliss? And is happiness all its cracked up to be?
Esme Madill, a consultant in the not for profit sector, spoke last night at a celebration of a London project for Somali children. She asked, if Cameron is calling on us to defend the values of the host community, who is part of this group? Can we have too many community groups, or too much cultur
The result of the Welsh Assembly referendum will not only decide whether the assembly gains significant legislative powers; it will also be a verdict on the success or failure of devolution. In the following article, Aled Edwards argues that post devolution Wales has become a more inclusive and we
