What is it like to work for an MP?
For the last two-and-a-half years, I’ve been a caseworker for Tristram Hunt, the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central.
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In this age of political disengagement, democratic reform of the Lords is vital
After the next election, Lords reform will be back on the agenda. Will anyone mention it beforehand? They certainly should.
Do the Daily Express fix their polls or something?
Here is an example…
Abortion: How about some evidence-based blogging?
We were disappointed to read the evidence free and emotive piece published on this site last week by Marko Atilla Hoare.
Confusion reigns over government rent policy for social housing
The chancellor’s recent Spending Review announcement and a subsequent letter from a civil servant to council housing authorities confirm that the government has got itself in a real muddle over policy towards rents in social housing.
Lewisham Hospital: A tribunal of the People, by the People and for the People
It is increasingly obvious that citizens worldwide are becoming disenchanted and disengaged with established government. This has been manifest in various forms of political and economic meltdown.
Legal aid changes will allow abuses of power by public authorities against the most vulnerable
Last week justice secretary Chris Grayling withdrew his proposal to deny those accused in the criminal courts and reliant on legal aid the right to choose who will represent them.
The Left must resist partisanship on extremism
Extremism may never be too far from the gaze of the topical political commentator, but events in Woolwich and subsequent EDL activity have ensured a stark rise in the column inches expended in service to the issue.
We should applaud the European Union for recognising the right to freedom *from* religion
Amidst all the hoopla in the United Kingdom about ‘losing rights to Brussels’, a predominantly biased anti-EU media fraternity has ignored a monumental step taken by the European Union towards the protection of secular rights.
Gove’s attack on public education is purely ideological
There has always been one asset the Conservative party has had over Labour since Margaret Thatcher’s election in 1979, and that is the sheer ruthlessness of their convictions.