Conference diary: Clegg raises Lib Dem spirits with patriotic speech

Clegg stakes a claim for "modern, open and tolerant" Britain.

Nick Clegg's 'I love Britain' speech in full

Read Nick Clegg's speech to the 2014 Lib Dem spring conference in York here

Farron and Huppert pitch a new approach to privacy issues online

Party aspires for 'credible' voice with new immigration policies

Podcast: Temperatures rising over 38 Degrees

Is the internet-mobilising 38 Degrees a spamming organisation – or at the front of an online revolution in democracy?
Podcast: Living with dirty politics

British political culture isn't very nice. It's a deeply entrenched problem - and yet the Politics.co.uk team was able to solve it in just 18 minutes...

BFAWU: Osborne's economic recovery was never intended to benefit ordinary people

Let's be absolutely clear; this recovery isn't for us and it was never intended to benefit ordinary people.
BFAWU: Yes, there is an alternative to austerity

Working people are disillusioned but successes like the Wigan strike show what is possible.
NARPO: Rewarding service?

NARPO calls for "careful consideration" over police pensions.
Blue Badger: Listen to the scientific evidence against the badger cull

David Cameron said recently that it takes "political courage" to pursue the policy of culling of badgers in the face of widespread opposition. I talked with the Prime Minister at the 2012 Conservative party conference wearing a white shirt with the Blue Badger icon emblazoned... Read more.
BFAWU: "If the unions really bankroll Labour, we’re getting a pretty poor return on our investment"

It’s now clear that the real issue of corruption in politics is the influence of lobbyists, who have been found paying huge amounts of money to political parties. It has been suggested that these ‘donations’ have helped to influence and shape government policy. Read more here.

The importance of being idle: Why Ukip's MEPs should trumpet their laziness

Attacking Nigel Farage and his party's MEPs for laziness in Strasbourg risks backfiring
Ukip's dodgy jokes are no laughing matter

If you haven't heard the one about the xenophobic, Islamophobic UK Independence party, you're in for a treat

Bob Crow was a testament to what trade unionists can achieve

Militant and hard-headed: but Bob Crow stood up for his members and showed what trade unionism can achieve
The court judgement on loving an immigrant

Nestled away in the court of appeal: a case which decides whether Brits can live with the person they love
It looks like drug reformers are about to get a foothold in policy

A Home Office minister just suggested recreational drugs should be sold on the high street

Comment: The Met police cannot be trusted with more weapons

The Metropolitan Police are attempting to delegitimise the right to protest.
Comment: Big business and the worldwide assault on democracy

The trade deal being negotiated between the EU and US gives corporations wide-ranging powers over national parliaments

Analysis: A British divide emerges over how to handle Russia

The biggest political development this weekend is the sudden collapse of domestic political consensus over how Britain should handle the crisis in Crimea.
So much for justice: How undercover police officers encouraged crime and ruined lives

If an undercover police officer is encouraging you to commit a crime and you end up behind bars, is your jail sentence really fair?

Conference diary: Clegg raises Lib Dem spirits with patriotic speech

Clegg stakes a claim for "modern, open and tolerant" Britain.
Conference diary: Time for a digital bill of rights?

Farron and Huppert pitch a new approach to privacy issues online

PMQs verdict: This truce won't last long

If you don't entertain them, you can't pack hundreds of MPs into a tiny chamber and expect them to behave
Merkel speech verdict: A cut-and-paste EU defence destined to be instantly forgotten

The German chancellor fails to live up to the occasion with a pedestrian defence of the EU.

Why can't science and politics get along?

Politicians have a patchy record on paying attention to scientists – to the detriment of us all.
38 Degrees interview: Meet British politics' spammer-in-chief

MPs have come to despise 38 Degrees for clogging up their inboxes with emails from constituents. They need to get used to it - because this model of campaigning-by-email-bombardment isn't going away.

Review: Denis Healey sings at Stand Up For Labour

He occupies a place in Labour legend. He spoke at the 1945 Labour conference. In 2013 Denis Healey made his conference return - singing lewd songs at a stand-up event somewhere in a backstreet in Brighton.
Review: Propaganda and Power, British Library

As the British Library's new exhibition shows, when it comes to propaganda the ridiculous - and our own politics - are never far away.

Britain's great energy debate

Can you tackle climate change without ruining our quality of life? Politics.co.uk takes an in-depth look at an issue with no easy solutions.
The Heathrow third runway debate

Is Heathrow's third runway the slowest U-turn of all time? Politics.co.uk looks at the issue no government dares to touch.

Podcast: Temperatures rising over 38 Degrees

Is the internet-mobilising 38 Degrees a spamming organisation – or at the front of an online revolution in democracy?