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And so it begins.

After an odyssey of Homeric proportions through the UK legal system, the coalition's Godzilla style rampage though England's green and pleasant land continues with a new enemy: the badger. This cull is a jackhammer blow to biodiversity...

Traditionally, the left has been reticent about engaging with national identity. Patriotism has often been seen by social democrats as inimical to progressive politics; an emotional sentiment which is the natural preserve of the right.

This has to change, and indeed...

• Democracy

Ed Miliband should resist calls to announce policy at this year’s Labour party conference.

There is always a lot of pressure on the leader’s speech at any party conference. Competing priorities are forcefully prescribed, some calling for more detailed policy commitments,...

It is a concern that only one in 10 members of the public understands that even though the government is reducing the deficit, the national debt is still increasing.  That’s a scary figure

At the moment our government is outspending our...

• Economy

In the 1990s Tory Ministers in the Major government claimed that selling-off the UK’s railways would bring "benefits to passengers and taxpayers".  Such a claim now appears laughable after years of rail fragmentation and chaos: rising fares, little sign of...

The political consensus around education is wrong - anyone outside Westminster knows this. Parents, employers, colleges and universities know it. Certainly the young people and teachers in our schools know it. We need a progressive alternative.

Built around a 19th century...