What is really going on in the post-industrial towns, villages and cities?
Inequality is not only bad for us - bad for our mental health and bad for society - it is also really wasteful.
Community care is not acceptable if it means creating care ghettos rather than enabling full citizenship.
What is socialism really all about? It needs to be reimagined if it is going to connect with our real challenges and what people actually care about.
Can we reconcile the functions and systems inherent in the welfare state with our desire for richer community lives and greater citizenship?
Honesty in politics is hard and the price paid by politicians who are willing to be honest is often brutal.
Gangsterism, not liberalism, better describes the current economic system.
Many so-called markets seem purposefully confusing.