My visit to Grenfell
Samir Jeraj is Policy and Practice Officer at the Race Equality Foundation and former Green Councillor in Norwich I visited Grenfell Tower as part of my day job in...
Youth turnout in the 2017 general election- what was going on?
While the opinion pollsters are still crunching the data, initial evidence suggests that there was a considerable increase in youth turnout in this year’s general election, which has...
Where to go, what to do? Greens and the Corbyn challenge
Mark Ballard was Green MSP for Lothian from 2003-2007. He writes here is a personal capacity. When I left the Labour Party in the early nineties and started to...
Sortition: the way to remake democracy for the 21st century
One of the big – perhaps even the biggest – philosophical questions that any society must answer is how to live together. How should a group of people...
Prison reform and the arts: to re, or not to re?
I recently watched a fascinating video on Facebook. In it we glimpse the processes of the Marin Shakespeare Company in California who work with inmates (henceforth ‘students’) in prisons...