MPs have so far failed to fully embrace the growing phenomenon of social media, with only 23 per cent actively promoting their presence on social networks[i].

Amid growing unemployment and increasing inequality in Europe, the new social provisions in the Lisbon Treaty will not immediately correct social imbalances, according to experts. But the crisis might trigger the right kind of social innovation and reform the market economy, they say.

The Social Liberal Forum got a profile in The Guardian this week, rightly highlighting its growing influence in the party (something I particularly noted over the Sheffield health debate): In a tribute to the forum’s growing influence, cabinet ministers Vince Cable and Chris Huhne will attend the SLF conference on Saturday, with party deputy leader

Some snippets of an article I have written for the Christian Political Forum E-Zine, IMPACT. It concerns the growing attraction of the "Social Gospel", and the progressive changes in the Evangelical community: Social Gospel! A phrase which attracts a number of images and thoughts, whether it is remembering people such as Oscar Romero or Martin Luther King, or suspicions being raised about the poss...

The excellent Janet Daley on the Telegraph comment section eloquently questions whether more government bureaucracy will make a difference to social services. We are to have yet another "shake-up" of the social services. Because, after all, having allowed one child to be tortured to death and another to be held hostage by her own mother, the social services are clearly in need of an intervention f...

An article by Ching Kwan Lee details a grassroots movement in China, a growing rights activism amongst ordinary people. 'Discontent about social injustice, wealth, and power gaps', she says, 'has fueled social unrest'; and she summarizes what is happening in...

The recent outcry over companies "spying" on their customers via social media raises a number of interesting points about individuals' growing power to make their

Alan Milburn, who will lead a government drive to boost social mobility, said a working-class child growing up in Britain today has less chance of reaching the Cabinet than he did.

From Growing Business: Loan guarantee scheme extended to social enterprise Social enterprise financiers will be eligible for government guarantees on loans worth up to £20m, it was announced this week. Business secretary Lord Mandelson told guests at a social enterprise summit that the government would guarantee loans from accredited lenders to Community Development Finance Institutions (CDF...

Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to the growing public concern over adult social care, said: