Help for Landowners: Tory housing policy is a handout to developers

Conservative plans do little to solve fundamental problems in the housing market

Britain doesn't know how good it's got it

The debate over immigration and the BBC shows Brits don't know a good thing when it's staring them in the face

New research shows immigrants aren't keeping down wages or driving up unemployment

A culture of secrecy in England's jails is preventing a probe of children's safety

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.

Letting MPs decide who governs? They're not going to like that

This parliament has had 48 months since first gathering in mid-May 2010 to sort out the arrangements for the next coalition. So why is it that the MP tasked with overseeing our constitutional arrangements is now demanding a change of plan?
The Lib Dem lead balloon strategy

The Liberal Democrats are unveiling an unappealing election strategy: more austerity. Good luck with that.

Channel 4 report shows true brutality of detention centres

A culture of secrecy and the example set by ministers have made detention centres hives of brutality, violence and racism
Immigrants aren't taking your job

New research shows immigrants aren't keeping down wages or driving up unemployment
Britain doesn't know how good it's got it

The debate over immigration and the BBC shows Brits don't know a good thing when it's staring them in the face

Comment: Legal aid reforms are not the justice intended in Magna Carta

The battle for the true legacy of Magna Carta is underway
Comment: Chris Grayling has lit a powder keg under British justice

High court ruling has given Chris Grayling the green light for 'disastrous' reforms

Gordon Brown's North Sea oil promise offers Scottish Labour a flicker of hope

Gordon Brown's call for a nationalisation of North Sea oil has left the industry cold - but then energy firms aren't the former prime minister's target audience, are they?
Will the Russian threat bring an end to defence austerity?

Michael Fallon's jitters about Russian aggression against the Baltic States will mean very little if the UK cuts its defence spending.

End of the miners' strike: The day hard men wept

May 1979, the election that brought to power the government that led to the miners' strike, was a vote of huge change. In May 2015, Britain once again has the opportunity to vote. And once again the status quo is breaking apart.
Pick of the Week: How the Green surge ground to a halt

Green party woes and cash for access dominated the week

PMQs verdict: Another win for Farage

A little trouble over Geneva bank accounts at HSBC made Nigel Farage the clear winner in this week's prime minister's questions.
PMQs verdict: So one-sided it was hard to watch

The only reasonable conclusion that any sane and logical person could make from this week's PMQs is that Miliband is finished. And yet...

Outsourcing voting: How private companies could profit from British elections

Switching to electronic voting poses lucrative opportunities for private companies – and they're now champing at the bit to get involved.
A Farage among men: Ukip takes lead in male vote

David Cameron should "stand up and fight" Ukip rather than trying to imitate them, Lord Deben has told Politics.co.uk, as a poll shows Nigel Farage's party is in the lead among men.

Review: Selma

The first Martin Luthor King biopic from a major studio proves complex, adult and emotionally satisfying
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.

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.
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.

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