The Threat We Face Last weekend we saw 100,000 far-right activists and extremists take over London, shouting racist, sexist, and Islamophobic chants, sharing white supremacist conspiracy theories a…

SKIMMING news programmes on the recent hate-fests outside asylum hotels in Epping and Falkirk, I stumbled across a clip of the former Conservative…

The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain's streets is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov

Engender’s new report ‘Women’s Political Journey’ explores the candidate journey—from preparing to stand as a candidate, including all the interview and vetting processes, to being elected and what ha...

World-leaders continue to hide behind the semantics, more concerned with “difference of opinion” than the now estimated over 61,000 Gazans…

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Asset manager Aberdeen’s surprise cut to funding research into inequality has left those that used its grants for good work reeling, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

A gender equality study shows that gender inequality is worsening financial hardship in deprived regions

Move opposed by senior politicians including the justice secretary Shabana Mahmood, who branded it ‘extreme’

Sir Geoff Palmer - a professor emeritus at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh - has died.

Babies such as Siwar Ashour are suffering from malnutrition as crucial supplies run out amid Israel’s total blockade on aid Siwar Ashour was born into war and hunger and has known nothing else. She is now in real danger of dying without ever having known a moment of peace or contentment. The six-month-old Palestinian girl, whose painfully emaciated body symbolised the deliberate starvation of Gaza when she appeared on the BBC this week, was only 2.5kg when she was born on 20 November last year. Continue reading...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is preparing to unveil an immigration white paper.

The heroism of soldiers from India, Africa and the Caribbean is too often airbrushed, as is the struggle of those who resisted colonial powers, says writer and sociology professor Gary Younge

Research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has revealed more children are in very deep poverty than they were a decade ago.