With a deficit to reduce and public services to protect, why should progressives care about Labour's commitment to...
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Electoral reform
Gordon Brown today outlined his plans for reform of the voting system, central to which is to legislate for a...
Dispersing power
For pioneers of our movement, like Keir Hardie or George Lansbury, socialism was about the dispersal of power. In RH...
Reckless work
Fresh from breaking a ‘cast iron guarantee' that the Conservatives would hold a referendum on the Lisbon treaty,...
Risky business
Depressed by the bankers' current bonus round? Outraged by endlessly escalating boardroom pay? Appalled by the...
The road to Copenhagen
In a few days time, world leaders in Copenhagen have a chance to prove that they are up to the biggest challenge...
Silencing justice
They call it the ‘small penis' rule. Faced with the risk of libel actions, novelists endow any objectionable...
A third way
Democracy has failed in Afghanistan. That statement can't make easy reading for Barack Obama, Gordon Brown or indeed...
World AIDS Day
There is much to celebrate in the recent UNAIDS and World Health Organisation ‘AIDS Epidemic Update’, not...
World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day always provides an important opportunity for reflection. As we look back over the last quarter of a...
Fighting for equality
The United Nations declared 25th November as International Day to Protest Violence against Women and 10th December as...
Preferred provider
Andy Burnham’s announcement this autumn that ‘the NHS is my preferred provider’ has raised hackles among the...