London’s mayoral election might be overshadowed in 2012 by royal and Olympic pageants, but it’s more revealing of the city’s heartbeat than either, says David Hayes.
With Scotland on the road to further devolution if not independence, and the cuts set to deepen, its time to talk about the oft-forgotten North of England.
The Coalition government's Health & Social Care Bill is political vandalism. Finally the Association of doctors is coming out openly calling for it to be stopped and a rethink.
Londoners have mostly welcomed the recent Polish immigrant community in their midst, although most do not know them as a community. A new micro-published thriller, extracted here, brings that community to life and tells of its own relationship to pre-1989 life and power
What are the consequences of the marketisation of higher education in England? Our consumerist society may get the education it deserves, but will it be the education it really wants or needs?
The exchange rate is the most important single price in the economy: it determines the price of goods for export and the real value of foreign-owned debt. The UK needs a more competitive external sector and can achieve it by much greater quantitative easing
The leading religious authority of the Church of England has disappointed many of the hopes invested in him. Rowan Williams has indeed failed to address the challenges facing the Church and the Anglican Communion, not least its historic entanglement with state power. This is the project that his s
A new epoch of democratic reform in Britain is needed to respond to the transformation of the British state, the disintegration of the old constitutional order and the rise of corporate power, now that hope of a Labour Lib Dem alliance for democracy is over. The pure but totalising strategy of the
'Underclass', 'feral', 'feckless': these terms have gained new currency after England's August riots. Although not explicitly racist, together they form a coded language that casts working class and Black communities as the 'enemies within'.
A review of UNPROVOKED, a new play about girl-on-girl knife crime in London.
The British media are now defensively acknowledging a post-imperial constitutional threat they have been silencing for decades.
