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Comment: PMQs – Miliband exposes Conservative divisions over the EU
Once again the issue of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union risks sending the Conservative Party into a frenzy of debate and division. Since becoming leader, David Cameron has tried his utmost to cast off his Party’s past.test
Comment: We need a clearer vision for the future of local government
Cllr Muhammed Butt, Leader of Brent Council It has been refreshing and invigorating to see serious debate in the Labour movement about the long term future of local government in the wake of yet another disastrous settlement from Eric Pickles.test
The Pickles Integration Speech – big on rhetoric, small on ideas
Jill Rutter writes on migration issues and through IPPR will be publishing a paper on integration in February 2013. A month after Ed Miliband’s speech on migrant integration and nearly 12 months after his Department published its integration strategy, Erictest
Opposition to Independence Enjoys 20% Lead
New polling has indicated that the pro-union “Better Together” campaign now enjoys a 20% lead over the “Yes Scotland” campaign on the day that the House of Commons votes on allowing the Scottish Parliament to lead on the arrangements fortest
Comment: On Feminism and the Suzanne Moore Controversy
In an article featured in a new anthology, then re-printed in the New Statesman, Suzanne Moore told her readers that “the desired body for women is that of “a Brazilian transsexual”.” What then came after was a bucket load oftest
MPs and their Pay: Because they’re Worth it?
Chris Olewicz is a post-graduate history student and writer studying at the University of Sheffield. When the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) published its report on pay and pension consultation earlier this month, newspapers inevitably picked up on the facttest
Cameron’s Gathering EU Storm
The forthcoming speech by David Cameron, set to define the Conservative’s long-term attitude to EU membership, is due soon. Egged on by an anti-EU right wing cabal of the 2010 intake of Eurosceptic MPs, others fearing for their seats becausetest
Government not doing enough to engage with loyalist community – Peter Hain
A former Northern Ireland Secretary has criticised the Government for failing to do enough to engage with the loyalist community in Northern Ireland. Amidst on-going violence on the streets of Belfast over the decision by the City Council to flytest
Anger at government reforms to Disability Living Allowance
On Wednesday, disability rights campaigners urged the Lords that the government’s proposed introduction of Personal Independence Payment, to replace the Disability Living Allowance, had serious flaws and requires significant changes. The website We Are Spartacus, which features the opinions oftest
Comment: How the government’s reforms to legal aid and judicial reviews are disenfranchising the poorest and will destroy confidence in the judiciary
Michael Higgs is a Law student at the University of Sheffield One of the basic tenets of any democratic society is ensuring that all classes have access to the legislature, executive and the judiciary. However, thanks to the government’s reformstest