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The EU isn’t perfect, said Nick Clegg at a Demos fringe event last night, and pro-Europeans shouldn’t pretend that it is. In fact, he argued, many of the frustrating things about it are difficult to avoid. The former Deputy PM...

by Alex Smith, Founder/CEO – The Cares Family As the general election results showed, Britain is a mixed up place. Although the poll on 7 May brought a decisive enough Conservative majority, it also revealed a number of divisions which...

Yesterday was the final day of the Independent Living Fund (ILF). This money, which has been distributed by central Government to disabled people since 1988, is being devolved to local councils. The controversy surrounding the change shows how devolving more...

As I read through Peter Oborne’s extraordinary article last night, on his resignation from the Daily Telegraph, one sentence leapt out at me: ‘I added that our readers were loyal, that the paper was still very profitable and that the owners had...

Rachel Sylvester’s piece in the Times yesterday portrayed the coming election as a ‘generation game’ where Conservatives court the grey vote, while Labour targets younger people. She’s right that there is a growing generational divide on certain issues. Younger voters are, for example,...

Televised debates for general elections are a relatively new phenomenon in the UK. The first such spectacles were held in advance of the 2010 election. Critics of the process, including David Cameron, claim it took attention away from the rest of...

Across Europe, anti-EU political parties are on the rise, and are expected to continue this trend in the current elections. One recent survey by YouGov put Britain’s UK Independence Party on 31 per cent while France’s Front National polled at...