Thank god for Diane Abbott, and perhaps even more so, for David Miliband. Were it not for these two sterling defenders of human rights, liberty and diversity, women and ethnic minorities would be unrepresented in …

The Iranian government must be laughing. Murder its own citizens, protesting for wanting the most fundamental human rights, and they get a few slaps on the wrists from the international community. ‘Don’t do that again’. …

From France to Argentina, gay rights are increasingly being recognised and enshrined in law. Yet in the world of sport, retrogressive social attitudes are forcing many high profile stars to conceal their sexuality.

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 …

The recent spate of violent attacks against schools in China betrays a deeper set of social and political problems stemming from rapid economic growth and government repression.

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.

The Conservative attempt to claw back the ebbing gay vote was dealt another blow at the weekend by the Observer’s claim that Philippa Stroud, Conservative parliamentary candidate for Sutton and Cheam, had founded a church …

The labour movement must be separated from the Labour Party when discussing the futures for both. One is more important than ever, the other requires a radical overhaul before the two can merge again.

The Conservative’s ‘big idea’ of a ‘big society’ is striking in its failure to recognise the role of the unregulated market in creating much of the poverty, inequality, and social atomisation which they believe characterises Britain’s ‘broken society’.

Denny de la Haye is an independent candidate running on an innovative campaign for the Labour seat of Hackney South and Shoreditch. Will he appeal to an electorate looking for something different?

A fair society or a meritocracy? Usually presented as a choice, these two concepts, it’s argued, are fully dependent on each other.