News & Insight

14 September 2018

LUKE POLLARD: Parliament needs to function like any other workplace in Britain. Its move to a new home offers a chance for a new culture and new more efficient working practices.

13 September 2018

MARK PERRYMAN finds a new history of the Labour left overlooks the art of the possible.

12 September 2018

ALEX NORRIS: The customs and traditions of parliament may seem charming, but they serve to alienate many of those whom MPs aim to represent. Updating some of the practices of the place would bring the institution into the 21st century and better reflect the communities it serves.

12 September 2018

11 Labour MPs elected in 2017 have come together to propose a series of measures to reform parliament. New Brooms, edited by James Frith MP and published by the Fabian Society, puts the experiences and insights of these new MPs at the heart of the debate.

11 September 2018

CAT SMITH: Changes to voting arrangements represent the first step on a slippery slope.

4 September 2018

ANDREW FAGAN: While human rights must continue to seek to protect the most vulnerable and weak in our societies, its defenders also need to urgently concern themselves with broader, more ostensibly banal and everyday concerns.