John Prescott became Baron Prescott of Kingston-Upon-Hull this week. Does this display a shift in the second chamber’s role, or a lack of purpose in the Lords?

Before we go branding the new budget as deadly, clear evidence of the link between specific cuts and a reduction in overall health must be provided. Only then can the Chancellor distinguish between acceptable welfare cuts, and those which are dangerous.

With the councils ‘urged’ to publish their detailed spending, what implications will this have?

After promising to create ‘political earthquakes’, the smaller parties and independents barely troubled the Richter scale and did not do as well as many expected in the recent election.

With a hung parliament and the first Coalition government in post-war history, are we witnessing the start of a dramatic demise of the Conservative and Labour parties as we know them?

As Nick Griffin announces plans to hand over leadership of his far-right party to someone fresher and younger, is this the end for the BNP? Possible, but probably not.

The future of Chad looks bleak and will continue to be so for some time to come.

(c) Sarah Evans
I had been chasing John McDonnell for an interview ever since he announced his candidacy. When I finally spoke with him, late last Thursday evening, he had just arrived at his constituency …

If we ever want to preserve the democratic liberties at the heart of our society, the right to free speech and expression must not be threatened; not for liberals, not for conservatives, not even for radicals.

Although the boycott is a small incident – by Italian standards – it again raises the question of why, or how, does Berlusconi continue to maintain such a strong support in Italy

The thing with discrimination and diversity is that we’ll only know we’ve succeeded when another Obama or his female equivalent come into a position of power and rather than go on about the fact that they are black or a woman, we instead focus upon the fact that they might also be quite good at their job.

In a world that is propped up on technology and the internet, why can’t we yet vote electronically?