Kevin Bennett considers the likely impact of government plans to cut the number of MPs and redraw constituency boundaries

ong gone are the days when the stay alone mother was deemed integral to the moral foundations of society

The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests have grown from a few hundred young people to a mass movement with global support, writes Joe Sandler Clarke

Ed Miliband’s tuition fee plan is just a ‘pale imitation of the existing Tory policy’, writes Gareth Lewis

Prepare for a day of nothing

The battle for the Republican presidential nomination is shaping up to be the most error-strewn campaign in political history

The Chancellor is on course for a skirmish over housing with increasingly restless Tory backbenchers

As Denmark elects Helle Thorning-Schmidt, its first female Prime Minister, Jess Brown explores how far female politicians have come in establishing themselves on the world stage

Our system is based too much around people who want to take money from Britain and place it in foreign bank accounts

Proposed changes to parliamentary constituencies across Manchester disregard the significance of local identity

President Obama’s flagship jobs plan could be his last chance to save a faltering presidency

Rob Fuller assesses the priorities of the three main parties, and what it will take for each of them to have a successful autumn conference

The Mayor of London’s ping-pong prowess provides a useful metaphor for the insular nature of our party conference system

Paul Haslam comments on the advance of racism in everyday situations.

Three years of predictable drivel

Universities are selling drug patents which last for 20 years, allowing companies to charge extortionate prices for vital medicines.

people walked out of Curry’s with their looted TVs, stopping and waiting for a green man before crossing the road

Martin Scott The recent guidelines proposed by the Health Secretary undoubtedly mark a major shake up of the function and future of the National Health Service. On the surface, the plans seem rather democratic. Foundation Trusts are the embodiment of the Government’s commitment to devolution and decentralisation in the public services, and are at the […]

Tom Hoctor An early action of the coalition government was to commission a report into the merits of health and safety legislation. This was much trumpeted by the media, and was seen as a victory for the papers that had campaigned tirelessly for common sense against the incursions of the nanny state telling people how […]

“The Students’ Union elections may represent a hypothetical bridge between personal belief and national participation, it is student responsibility to cross that gulf and embrace union politics”