Read Michael Leahy's response to John Denham at this week's event 'Built to last: jobs, growth and skills in the next economy'

Middle-class lefties should pipe down when it comes to supermarkets. Decent, affordable food for all is an old socialist goal to be applauded, not opposed

Cooperatives Fortnight: I'm a firm advocate of cooperative trust schools, I know that the cooperative movement has done wonders to help push progressive educational values in this country.

The coalition's proposals to destroy DNA currently held on the national database will be disastrous for the future of rape convictions. It must reverse the policy as it did on its equally misconceived plans to give anonymity to defendants and to halve sentences for guilty pleas in rape cases.

The blue Labour campaign inspired by Maurice Glasman upholds that the labour movement emerged out of a groundswell of civic action and a desire for self-determination by individuals, families, communities and workforces, whose political horizons were not fixated simply on the state.

Seven in 10 Britons consider themselves middle class. But what does new research reveal about working-class Britain?

David Cameron made a pun and even answered a question at today's bout, but was still dodged questions on hard figures concerning the NHS and the sputtering 'bonfire of the quangos'

Britain's complex and long-running housing crisis underlies anxiety about many other issues - fears for the economy, jobs, and much of the immigration debate are bound up with our relationship to our homes. We have fretted that house prices were too high, then fretted that they were falling

The rise and fall of ResPublica is the story of how David Cameron postured to the centre in opposition before moving back to the right in power