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...education centre, some prisoners were talking about books. The conversation was not of favourite authors, or what they had read recently, but of families, the future, of life outside. Relaxed and emotionally open, it was an unusual conversation for any group of men. In the confines of a prison, it was remarkable and moving. By a quirk of timing, I was visiting two prisons...

...education, health care and addressing the issues in deprived communities, campaigning within US elections is often determined by simple issues such as ‘tax cuts’. These benefit the rich substantially more and do not significantly alter the landscape of hardship and insecurity many US citizens are experiencing. The US has a history of presidential candidates who emerge...

...education about the Victorians. Yet few have dared to expose this material in any significant quantity, to highlight the presence of very graphic violence in multiple, even connected, entertainment genres. Violent entertainments fulfilled an important function in the evolution of modern British culture and society. They began to flourish right at the very moment when...

...education, a concentration of formal enforcement resources away from the majority of businesses onto so-called high risk areas, and consistent efforts to do more with less. Notwithstanding the question begged by this initiative – who on earth would want worse regulation? – Brown summed up this new approach to regulation and enforcement pithily; these were to be...

...educational divide, young vs old, the influence of the right-wing print media, and a trans-national revolt against established elites. These would all have had a significant impact on the result in both Wales and Scotland. However, they don’t tell us why these two nations, which claim a dubious Celtic kinship and which occupy similarly devolved positions within the...