WATCH: Suing the state - hidden rules in the EU-US trade deal

Investor protections in a massive EU-US trade deal give corporations rights over national parliaments

Win tickets to see 1984 at the Playhouse Theatre

The 'definitive book of the 20th century' is re-examined in a radical new staging.

Another one of Grayling's excuses comes falling down

From Inner London to rural Wales, our reliance on motor cars is silently throttling us.

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: 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.
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.

How the government allows itself to break the law

The government is going to force judges to let it get away with breaking the law
Minister with final say on women's issues is now... a man

For the first time ever, the new minister with the final say on women's issues is going to be... a man

Doing God: Why is Cameron calling himself 'evangelical'?

The prime minister's sudden shift to religious rhetoric has a political motive.
Liam Fox accuses Snowden of 'treason' - but ignores his own past

Liam Fox accuses Edward Snowden and Alan Rusbridger of "treason" and "incompetence". He should know.
The MoJ inadvertently disproves Grayling prison book ban defence

Another one of Grayling's excuses comes falling down

Comment: Car pollution is the invisible killer politicians daren't talk about

From Inner London to rural Wales, our reliance on motor cars is silently throttling us.
Comment: Brussels bureaucrats and Tory eurosceptics can work together to defeat plain packs

A rare chance for cooperation could see Tory eurosceptics and EU bureaucrats defeat plain cigarette packs

Osborne has fallen into Labour's trap on living standards

Today’s earnings figures have set a trap for the Conservative Party. So far they appear determined to leap into it.
This Is Your Brain Online: Did Farage really win the EU debates?

65,090 Tweets – over a thousand a minute – appeared about the debate, during the debate. So what did they say?

Win tickets to see 1984 at the Playhouse Theatre

The 'definitive book of the 20th century' is re-examined in a radical new staging.
The Week in Politics: A plague on all their Houses

You wouldn't think it possible – but this week the British body politic managed to make itself more unpopular than ever before.

50 shades of denial: MPs fail the Maria Miller test

Politicians are displaying an almost heroic stupidity in failing to realise the blinding obvious: the public simply doesn't trust them to judge their colleagues
PMQs verdict: Miliband's smile froze on his lips

Ed Miliband thought he was on to a winner - but somehow the Labour leader missed yet another opportunity to make David Cameron look stupid

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.

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: Temperatures rising over 38 Degrees

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