Last month, Scotland's police made a radical policy shift, announcing they would no longer seek to prosecute people brought to the UK to work against their will. This shift is crucial: a "victim focused" approach is needed, if we want to achieve better results in the fight against human trafficking.

For me it was a speech that showed that after three years in coalition our resolve to do what is right for this country has not left us, and whilst a Queen's Speech is not the place for economic and fiscal policy, it also showed that we are still committed to our central task.

The fact that denouncing gay rights and threatening freedoms can be such a rallying cry for mainstream politicians in modern Russia, says more about the country as a whole than the national parliament. As abhorrent as the views expressed by some of the pioneers of this bill are, they're still largely representative.

In the 70s, 80s and 90s, engineering got a pretty bad press. The news was dominated by strikes and job losses and it's hardly surprising that the legacy of that time has had its impact on young people. But now engineering is one of the best paid and most secure careers a young person can choose.

The Member of the Scottish Parliament, Rhoda Grant, believes sex workers are imbeciles who should be denied the right to earn a living and subjected to state-sanctioned sexual assault to ensure that they comply with the dictates imposed upon their profession. Not that she puts it quite like that.

A law banning "insulting" language and behaviour is strangling free speech and should be scrapped,a senior Tory MP has demanded, after a student was h...

If two heads are better than one, a million must be a veritable diamond deposit ready to be extracted. Starting this month the EU will be mining ordinary people for ideas on new legislation.

Recent statements from legal experts suggest that proposed changes to Swedish rape law might be happening soon. The changes are likely to position the Swedish rape law more in line with the European Strasbourg convention - and for many Swedes the proposed changes seem long overdue.

Prince Charles has been offered a veto over 12 government bills since 2005 because of a legislative loophole, according to reports. The Guardian re...

Mark D'Arcy at the BBC looks ahead to the legislative agenda at Westminster. ...