News & Insight

We all make mistakes: Legal aid under threat

23 October 2013

Many of the children and young people our legal team work with have made terrible mistakes. That is not to belittle the impact of those mistakes on their victims. A great number of the children I have worked for have...

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Silencing society: The dangers of the lobbying bill

22 October 2013

Adversity makes strange bedfellows. The old proverb isn’t wrong. In the ongoing debate on the lobbying bill which continues in the House of Lords today, the alliances formed to defend civil society’s free speech have ranged from the strange to...

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Crosland and one nation Labour

21 October 2013

Critics of Labour’s time in government are often heard describing new Labour as Croslandite, and they don’t mean it as a compliment. The argument goes that the 1997-2010 government embodied three failings that came straight from Tony Crosland: the pursuit of...

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Down under: The challenges facing ALP

18 October 2013

Less than one week after Bill Shorten was elected leader of the Australian Labor Party, the gravity of the situation is clear.  The brief period of excitement as members rejoiced in the modest serving of democracy that was rationed out,...

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Bringing slavery home

18 October 2013

Steve McQueen’s new release ‘12 Years a Slave’ has its European premiere in Leicester Square today. Chasing the tails of Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ and Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’, it’s the third Hollywood movie in 18 months to tackle the difficult theme of slavery....

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Opinion

The price-hiker's guide to energy

17 October 2013

It’s that time of year again – the ‘big six’ energy companies have started announcing inflation busting price hikes, to hit just as the cold winter months set in. Today, British Gas announced a hike of nine per cent, following...

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