On Friday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) will publish its latest GDP estimates, which many economists expect to show a marked improvement in UK growth. Not so very long ago an orthodox, if not unarguable, view was that improved...
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Many of the children and young people our legal team work with have made terrible mistakes. That is not to belittle the impact of those mistakes on their victims. A great number of the children I have worked for have...
Adversity makes strange bedfellows. The old proverb isn’t wrong. In the ongoing debate on the lobbying bill which continues in the House of Lords today, the alliances formed to defend civil society’s free speech have ranged from the strange to...
Critics of Labour’s time in government are often heard describing new Labour as Croslandite, and they don’t mean it as a compliment.
The argument goes that the 1997-2010 government embodied three failings that came straight from Tony Crosland: the pursuit of...
Less than one week after Bill Shorten was elected leader of the Australian Labor Party, the gravity of the situation is clear. The brief period of excitement as members rejoiced in the modest serving of democracy that was rationed out,...
Steve McQueen’s new release ‘12 Years a Slave’ has its European premiere in Leicester Square today. Chasing the tails of Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ and Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’, it’s the third Hollywood movie in 18 months to tackle the difficult theme of slavery....