Good Society
It’s time to think the unthinkable on illegal drugs
Brighton and Hove could become the first British city to provide consumption rooms for drug addicts. This should prompt a debate over whether prohibition is still the best way to reduce drug use.
‘We’re all Thatcherites now’? Sorry Dave, we’re not
Going by a new poll from YouGov, the proposition that we are "all Thatcherites now" appears flawed: some of the central tenets of Thatcherism are deeply unpopular with the public.
Across the nations Thatcher’s legacy goes on dividing people
Amidst the pomp and the circumstance of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral today, across the nations the sight of her coffin, draped in the union jack, is doing little to quash the bitterness felt towards her tenure at Number 10.
Given some of the other rogues that got one, we should have given Thatcher a state funeral
Considering so many divisive and controversial figures have in the past received a state funeral, why deny Margaret Thatcher one?
The fan takeover of Portsmouth FC should be welcomed by supporters of all clubs
The implicit assumption that the first thing that the owners of any club should be doing is going all out for a return to the top – much less the owners of a Club upon whom was visited more tragedy than most clubs would suffer in a lifetime, let alone a few years – is misguided at best. That way lies madness.
Just how many families are there where three generations have ‘never worked’?
In seeking to justify the government's reforms to the benefits system, Iain Duncan Smith has previously claimed that there exists a situation in Britain where "three generations of the same family have [often] never worked". However all the the evidence shows what an insignificant problem "three generations of out-of-work families" are in the grand scheme of things.