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.
A local argument in the UK over hanging has taken to the new parliamentary petitions. Will the populists stand and be counted?
Parliament may debate but it cannot in fact introduce capital punishment.
The pressure group Compass have launched a new campaign in Britain. Will it work?
How did we make it to a better world? Three things happened: to state power, corporate power and human society. They came to a head in 2020 but had been
Trade unions and the anti-cuts movement are gearing up for a UK-wide strike over pension reforms. Yet the left still haven't worked through the failures of their last mass action against the Coalition. A central issue is the need for the unions to ally themselves with network politics
It seems the British government is about to claim that the voluntary sector supports its plans to market the NHS out to "any willing provider". Those who actually give their money, time and effort to the voluntary sector should speak out against this if it isn't true.
In a bold new initiative, philosopher-proprietor A.C. Grayling has launched a for-profit university amidst a storm of opposition. Could it be that the prospectus is misleading, and the venture undemocratic and wrong in principle?
