Between apathy and hope – your chance to give yourself something to vote for!
More than 60% of 18-24 year olds do not vote and the number of young people voting has not reached the threshold of 50% for the past 25 years.
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Review: Yes, Prime Minister’s Hacker just doesn’t hack it
Heather Spurr reviews Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn’s West End comedy.
More history in Northern Ireland: DUP attend LGBT event for first time
The Democratic Unionist Party, Northern Ireland’s biggest party, sent a representative to an LGBT event for the first time last week.
Comment: Lords reform reveals sub-prime minister Cameron’s weakness
The Lords reform/boundary change debacle shows, after just two years in (shared) power, David Cameron is on the ropes when it comes to his own party.
Osborne’s thrown a javelin through his own foot by failing to make FTT a reality
France has implemented a tax on the financial sector that will raise money to help the poor, writes Simon Chouffot of the the Robin Hood Tax campaign.
There needs to be fairer access to universities for the people of Scotland
It is the continuing duty of the Left in the UK to champion the value that we should place to education.
Too many women incarcerated in El Savador for suffering miscarriages
Hundreds of women are serving prison sentences in El Salvador because they have had an abortion or miscarriage
Which way to happy: Data is a map, now we need to figure out the way
The first annual results of the ‘Measuring National Wellbeing Programme’ showed happiness and subjective wellbeing vary between groups and locations.
Want to know how to be happy? It’s complicated!
Trying to understand wellbeing though national wellbeing figures is like trying to understand what Britain is like by looking at Google Earth’s snapshots of it.
Prioritising the wellbeing index is one of the few progressive things this government has done
Cameron needs to develop a progressive policy landscape fit to meet the challenges of our ecological overshoot and wellbeing undershoot.