The Rushdie affair is as important today as it was 25 years ago
On this day 25 years ago, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling on Muslims to execute everyone involved in the publication of Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.
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People’s Parliament week one: revolution and prison abolition
The People’s Parliament is a new discussion series, hosted by John McDonnell MP, with the aim of livening up and providing political depth to the debate in the run up to the next election.
Majority of SNP MPs absent from bedroom tax vote
Just two Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) MPs turned up to vote against the bedroom tax in the House of Commons earlier today after a prosal to repeal the tax was put forward by Labour MP Ian Lavery.
Banning smoking in cars to demonise the poor? Not really, no
Writing in today’s Guardian, Zoe Williams has interpreted the ban as yet another way of demonising poor parents.
Scrapping housing benefit for under 25s will only feed youth homelessness
It is unlikely that scrapping housing benefit for under-25s will mean that claimants will go back to living with parents.
FGM is an atrocity which transcends politics – we must ensure that the Tories oppose it in deed as well as word
Tories in Europe are hampering attempts to tackle FGM.
Never mind the 50p top rate: these five cuts really are a false economy
Five self-defeating cuts which are not only unfair, but fail on the coalition’s own criteria of deficit-reduction.
People ‘taking food back to foodbanks’ because they can’t afford gas to heat it
Every so often in politics you hear a quote or a statistic that seems to suck all the air out of your lungs.
Government slammed for giving ‘false impression’ of flood investment
The government has been accused (£) by the head of the UK Statistics Authority of giving a misleading impression of how much it has invested in flood defence.
5 reasons LGBT activists are protesting about Russia
Five reasons LGBT activists have been protesting about the situation in Russia.