I would bet my last penny that Labour is about to embark on a sterile debate. It will be symptomatic of the disease that has afflicted the party ever since…
19 May, 2015
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19 May, 2015
I would bet my last penny that Labour is about to embark on a sterile debate. It will be symptomatic of the disease that has afflicted the party ever since…
11 May, 2015
At one level last Thursday was an un-expectedly bleak night. The way the daily lives of so many will now be crushed feels almost unbearable to countenance. But anyone reading…
07 May, 2015
Collaboration is a vital capacity for a more plural and participatory space. Whatever happens on polling day, the General Election 2015 has been chaotic. The growing complexity of British politics,…
30 Apr, 2015
Something amazing is happening in the UK general election in Scotland. Its campaign and mood is so different from the rest of the UK. Voters are animated and engaged: one…
24 Apr, 2015
Celebrities including Damon Albarn and Irvine Welsh have backed an online petition designed to show the strength of opposition to the nuclear arsenal A new campaign has been launched to…
26 Apr, 2015
I know I wasn't alone over the past two years, watching the campaign for Scottish Independence and feeling anxious, frustrated and yes, jealous. I didn't want the UK to break…
24 Apr, 2015
The 2010 general election had its emblematic moment – the encounter between Gordon Brown and ‘that bigoted woman’ – that confirmed the inevitable. The image of the three women party…
23 Apr, 2015
We have been told – and indeed it seems self-evident – that the policy battleground for this election is around austerity, spending plans and the NHS. Unless of course you live in…
21 Apr, 2015
Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football selects his reading for the 2015 General Election Campaign The much-missed indie band, well by some of us of a certain age, Sultans of Ping,…
21 Apr, 2015
The title of 2015 Labour Manifesto, Britain can be better, echoes the title of the 1997 manifesto (Because Britain deserves better), although minus the New Labour appellation and the big…
14 Apr, 2015
TRIDENT: TIME TO MOVE ON - Will you join? With the election too close to call, there is a real possibility that May will deliver a centre left government which could…
30 Mar, 2015
Thanks to everybody that has taken the time to discuss the issue of tactical voting over the past few weeks. The discussion over at http://compassonline.forumchitchat.com/ has been wonderfully Compass –…