Ed: An exhibition of printed passages from thinkers, activists and movements - including Bertrand Russell,...
Ed: NLP is excited to be one of the organisers of Up the Anti - Reclaim the Future, a one day...
Ed: This is a guest post by Sean Gittins What do Meat Loaf, Walt Disney, Oscar Wilde and Burt Reynolds have in...
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The Big Society reunites leading capitalists and philanthropic foundations with their Victorian forebears in an exercise of nineteenth-century paternalism disguised in the modern garb of the "social entrepreneur".
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Politically-motivated dismissals of Eric Hobsbawm's historical contributions are facile. But neither can his histories be separated from his politics
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How can the green political movement and the scientific community build a mutually productive relationship?
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A Teddy Bear Catapult - what would Gandhi say? Two new books examine activists' efforts to escape isolation, political as well as physical.
Reducing inequality in these countries is crucial for overcoming macroeconomic instability and global and European current account...
Universal Credit could trap people in poverty unless major flaws are ironed out. Universal Credit (UC) will replace means-tested benefits...
Important new report recommending that the EU restrict trade with Israel’s settlements
Seamus Milne’s book makes clear who has been most successful at making sense of our post-Cold War world, and why. For the Left, the time for...
Question: In deciding not to shortlist the Don Valley Power Project for the UK’s £1bn Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) competition, is the government’s intent on pushing any...
This is a guest post by Janet MacGillivray, Tar Sands Blockade Legal Coordinator And Strategic Liaison Less than one week before the U.S....
The mainstream media and even Democrats have been slow to call Mitt Romney’s deliberate falsehoods “lies.” But after just calling them what they are, it is also...
It’s been a busy day for policy wonks those interested in the economic debate with, not one, but two major reports to read and digest. The long awaited...
Is high government spending bad for prosperity? If you live in a country where government spending is a high proportion of GDP, is that going to make you and your family poorer? It’s often...
This morning saw the publication of ‘No Stone Unturned’, the long-awaited report of the Heseltine Review. The TUC has been happy to engage with Lord Heseltine and his team throughout...
It is ordinarily most appropriate to think about different types of pensions in terms of defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC)....
“**TRIGGER WARNING** Given its well-documented and inexcusable problems with sexism, hip-hop...
Memes are an interesting way in which people appropriate mass culture seemingly for their own ends - pictures taken from movie stills, stolen photographs, domestic cat pictures, or crude sketches, fixed to a slogan that is...
Earlier this month British Columbians were surprised to hear that Enbridge, the main proponent of the proposed Northern...
Newsnight’s Joe Lynam put together a package about economic recovery in Lincolnshire – a community that shows signs of emerging from the recession. I was then invited onto the show to comment on the...
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