Tomorrow the Tories will try to push through their new Welfare Reform Bill.  Read the story about welfare reform in our new Soundings free-to-download ebook Welfare reform - the dread of things to come Welfare Reform The dread of things to come Edited by Jonathan Rutherford and Sally Davison © Soundings 2012 The contributions to this short ebook have been written in t...

by Sokari Ekine from Pambazuka (pictures © Nairaland.com) Is the Nigerian ‘revolution’ over? Was it just a brief moment in our history when everyone came together believing that this time things would be different? Or has there been a permanent shift in consciousness? Emmanuel Iduma likens Nigeria’s 14-day revolt to a dream from which we awoke

The leader of the RMT union, Bob Crow, has told the Leveson Inquiry that a reporter allegedly took material from bins outside an RMT annual general meeting after he was refused a copy of the agenda.

Whilst looking for a copy of a poem by Harri Webb, I came across this poem by a winner of the Harri Webb Memorial Prize, Wrexham poet Grahame Davies: Liverpool by Grahame Davies When I was a lad in Flintshire, A day to remember for me Was to take a trip over the border To the city at the edge of the sea. With her white towers on the horizon, The world seemed to bow at her feet and we felt a

Many of the differences between American and British election campaigns are not the result of American campaigners having good ideas the British should copy, but rather are the result of four key legal differences between the two countries.

The education secretary is malfunctioning in mysterious ways: A plan by the education secretary Michael Gove to send a copy of the King James Bible to every school in the country – each including a personal inscription from him –...

Enjoy (but please, don’t copy): PS No, she didn’t win. PPS For some other horrors, see the strange political adverts here.

Three weeks ago we submitted a Freedom of Information Request for a copy of the EU treaty that David Cameron was supposed to have vetoed. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office have responded today with the following: Dear Mr Parr, Thank-you for your email. I apologise for the short delay in getting back to you. We are not

Max Fisher at the Atlantic Monthly, or someone working for him, has uncovered what may the last remaining copy of Vogue's notorious interview with Asma Assad, wife of Bashar, published last year. It's quite a piece and a classic of...

So Mr Potato Head has been convinced by the lies. The Prime Minister has ordered officials to develop a scheme in England to stop the sale of alcohol at below 40p to 50p a unit in shops and supermarkets. Ministers could copy Scottish proposals, which would ban the sale of alcohol below 45p a unit,