Progressives have never been entirely happy with civil society – unless it is packaged in a nostalgic way around trade unions, friendly societies and co-ops.
For many on the left it reeks of paternalist charity, of the rich deigning to support...
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My brother-in-law Ludwig died on Saturday 11 March, 2017. Ludwig was 62 this year, so he lived into old age for someone born with the health problems he was born with. In recent years he had severe dementia. He didn’t respond...
This autumn marks twenty-one years since Tony Blair’s famous pledge on the priorities of the government he would lead: “education, education, and education”. As that promise comes of age, I have been looking at how the Tories are today failing...
Devolution offers the best chance we have to integrate health and social care for those with dementia, writes Hazel Blears
For the first time dementia has overtaken cancer and heart disease as the greatest single cause of death in the UK....
The left needs to stop lecturing British Muslim women, writes Shaista Aziz
Post-Brexit, hate crime has soared. But while the political discourse around austerity, immigration and the refugee crisis has created an environment where growing numbers of people seem to feel...
For me this debate is about culture and race, but it’s not primarily about racism. It’s about the way that inheritance, culture and environment shape the way each of us sees the world, and I will argue that this is...