Protests force new deportation black-out system

Deportation date swapped for deportation window as protest movement forces Home Office to change tactics

Comment: The loophole which allows police to treat 17-year-olds as adults

How many more have to die before Theresa May turns her condolences into action?

FoI was genuinely radical and open. That's why they conspired to close it down

The Labour leader's speech revealed the real source of Ed Miliband's image problem

Podcast: ED Morel, a past master at the politics of dissent

This is the story of ED Morel, the great unknown politician of the last century
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?

BFAWU: If David Cameron is attacking unions, we must be doing something right

Workers strike to avoid becoming a burden to the taxpayer. Why won't David Cameron support hard-working union members?
CML: New mortgage rules are to protect consumers

Michelle Vosper from Council of Mortgage Lenders discusses the changes to the UK mortgage rules.
BFAWU: Is a contract and a wage really too much to ask of fast food employers?

If fast food companies can afford to pay CEOs £8.45 million, they can pay their staff a living wage.
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.

Reshuffle: The inside story of how Hague's ego trumped the dignity of the Lords

Peers have been left flabbergasted by the decision to demote the leader of the Lords' Cabinet status
Gove smothers May with praise - while retreating from his extremism apology

Michael Gove fell over himself to praise Theresa May this morning - while subtly retreating from his apology over her handling of extremism.

Why private prisons don't work

The data is clear: private prisons cost more and achieve less. So why don't we bring them into public ownership?
Even the MoJ admits it: The prison system under Grayling is falling apart

While Grayling makes speeches about trade unions, his own department admits he is failing on a massive scale
Harper gets his way: Minister's cleaner is deported

Isabella Acevedo taken from her room just after midnight and flown out the country

Almost all universities now charge £9,000 tuition fees

Ministers promised maximum fees would be the 'exception not the rule'
Poll roundup: 'Window-dressing' suspicions prevent Tory reshuffle boost

Suspicions of 'window-dressing' appear to be reinforcing the public's idea that nothing much will change.

Week in Review: The war which separated Israel from the world

This time it's different
Comment: We can't tackle revenge porn using existing laws

We're not the sort to demand legislation where it's not needed, but the only way to protect the victims of revenge porn is a dedicated law

PMQs verdict: Tories prefer cheers to 'annihilation'

The Conservative backbenchers won PMQs this week
PMQs verdict: Cameron uses the law as a shield, but forgets to cover his legs

Cameron uses the law as a shield to avoid scrutiny, but he does so with little grace

Have boarding schools damaged politicians?

Everyone knows David Cameron and his Cabinet are posh. Yet few in Westminster will accept a psychotherapist's claim that their boarding school backgrounds have fundamentally crippled their ability to lead.
How the internet will destroy capitalism

Jeremy Rifkin explains how the creation of zero marginal cost is destroying capitalism and replacing it with something... nicer.

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.

Prison book ban

Authors and prison reform campaigners join forces to get Chris Grayling to think again on his ban on sending books to prisoners.
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.

Podcast: ED Morel, a past master at the politics of dissent

This is the story of ED Morel, the great unknown politician of the last century