The government recently declared that the UK will no longer take part in rescue missions to save those who have taken a perilous journey in the hopes of seeking asylum overseas. These rescue missions, known as Mare Nostrum, have saved...
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Looking back in 1968 over his long political life, the great Fabian Leonard Woolf wrote:
"I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing. The world today and the history of the human anthill during the last fifty-seven years would be...
Earlier this year, Oxfam research found that the five richest families in the UK are wealthier than the poorest 20 per cent of the population combined. That means that just a handful of families hold more wealth than 12.5 million...
2014 was the year the pre-election political contours solidified and the most controversial dividing lines centred on the future of government. Next year’s election will offer up some big choices. Here are five things we learnt in 2014 about the...
This May’s general election is set to be the most important in my lifetime. Not because it looks likely to be the closest, but because there has rarely been such stark differences between the two main parties.
On the one hand,...
The EU has been good for us.
For the UK, being part of the EU means that we are part of the world's largest single market creating 20 per cent of the world's GDP; an economic zone larger than that of...