A plenary session organised by the Fabian Society as part of the Labour conference fringe in Manchester provided a further opportunity for leading figures within the party to address pressing ‘English Questions’
The Coalition's proposals to reshape the UK's electoral geography by reducing the number of MPs and equalising the size of constituencies, may inflict more pain than gain, as a report by the British Academy shows.
The election of a new leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party is a rare opportunity to put fresh thinking on global security at the heart of the political agenda.
UK Labour leader Ed Miliband drew a political line under Iraq in his conference speech. But a future statesman needs to answer the dilemmas posed by liberal interventionism with more thoughtfulness
It is about time that thinking people in the UK recognised that trade unions are a good thing, integral to democracy as representatives of working people who would otherwise be voiceless.
It's radical equality that matters to the transformation of politics, not diversity as such - we continue our debate between men about achieving gender parity.
It is a very odd fact that somehow abolishing quangos is regarded per se as a good and even democratic action. But the leaked infomation that some 180 quangos are to be axed, and 124 merged does put in question the motives and good sense of ministers.
Instead of rejecting the Conservatives' Big Society outright, the left should endorse its values but argue that the state has an important role to play in fostering them.
Today, we see that the rules of western European racism are shifting. On the one hand, they are becoming less racialist; on the other hand they are seeking to become official. How should we Europeans understand this, and how should we respond? In the first of her Inter Alia columns, Markha Valenta
Social Democracy has to compromise with capitalism and its markets if it is to gain and exercise power the question is what kind of compromises it makes. The omens of Labour's new leader are not bad.
The UK is one of the most surveilled societies in the world along with North Korea. Is it all about solving crime? No, it is about securing the state's control and crushing individual self-respect
Was the system used to elect Ed Miliband as Labour's new leader flawed?
