Coalition ‘in denial’ about food bank use, according to new report
The coalition needs to “own up to the role it’s playing” in the growth of food banks, a new report says.
Good Society
To be meaningful again, liberalism must actually seek to liberalise
The challenge facing contemporary liberalism runs far deeper than the leader of the Liberal Democrats.
How Labour can win a mandate for change
The spending squeeze will be dramatic and tough, requiring a very different governing strategy for Labour.
Women need flexibility with GP appointments, not instant access
Is an instant GP appointment what people really want?
The uncomfortable truth is that Labour can learn something from Nigel Farage
At least the UKIP leader avoids the dizzying spin which the voters are seeing through so clearly.
How can Labour defeat UKIP?
Left Foot Forward asked a number of leading progressives what they think Labour needs to do to defeat UKIP.
The not so strange death of liberal England
For liberalism to survive, its thinkers and activists will need to wrest control from those so mired in the Westminster bubble.
Who were the most successful British political party leaders since 1900?
David Cameron is the surprising top Tory performer, ahead even of Margaret Thatcher.
It’s time to bust some myths about benefit fraud and tax avoidance
Get angry about people playing the system by all means, but start at the top and work your way down if you expect to be taken seriously.
Labour can win in 2015. But there is a very long way to go
People like Miliband, they just don’t yet view him as a prime minister.