I read the stories that surrounded the scaling-down of this year's WorldPride with a sense of dread and just a little déjà vu. I was part of the bidding team to bring WorldPride to London and, until I retired after last year's event to give time to other projects, had...

Voters pick their candidate based on a huge variety of issues. They aren't always the important issues that political strategists and pollsters spend late nights worrying over. Often how their mum was treated at the local GP, or next door's planning application for a ghastly extension is what really matters...

The Prime Minister's comment, on this morning's Today Programme, that there should be a referendum on House of Lords reform depressed me greatly. All three main political parties support reform and a recent YouGov/Unlock Democracy Poll found that 69% of voters support them in that. Whether to...

The debate continues about the government's work experience scheme for young people. Whilst government ministers struggle to clarify the benefits of the scheme, they are increasingly drowned out by a vocal campaign (condemned by right-wing commentators as the work of the Socialist Worker Party). They've been clever enough...

Exactly how much is your privacy worth? Charlotte Church has joined a long line of celebrities and other public figures in successfully suing the defunct News of the World for £600,000 for invading her privacy. The Church case was awful, but is her privacy worth over half a...

Ken Livingstone, in a recent New Statesman article makes the offensive claim that "you just knew the Tory party was riddled with it [homosexuality] like everywhere else is."

Another gaffe, echoing the time he compared reporter Oliver Finegold to a "concentration camp guard". Livingstone's idiotic...