Participants in a pro-gay marriage rally. Photograph: Getty Images.
By New Statesman - 13 June 16:59

The value of marriage would be increased, not diminished, through its extension to same-sex couples.

The victim of a drone strike in Gaza
By Geoffrey Robertson - 13 June 14:52

There is a sense that international law has failed.

An HMRC inspector arrives at Ibrox Stadium. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Kevin McKenna - 13 June 14:07

Glasgow Rangers FC represented everything that made working-class Protestant Scotland proud to be British. How was the football club reduced to this state?

The 2011 census.
By Samira Shackle - 13 June 10:31

Ethncity is officially "self-defined". Whether Cornish, Welsh, or Arab, you make a statement when you tick a box.

Plastic Brit? Mo Farah after winning a race in Oregon earlier this month.
By Steve Baxter - 12 June 11:27

Screaming about "plastic Brits" may be a rare example of the Mail getting its own readers wrong.

Refugees living in Britain celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
By Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi - 11 June 11:32

For those at the mercy of war, poverty, and global inequality, to be born in Britain is to be born powerful.

Woman laughing
By Nicky Clark - 08 June 12:55

Frankie Boyle passes off his jokes about rape and "retards" as satire, but it is just vile with a smile, says Nicky Clark.

A partridge lies dead in the snow
By John Burnside - 06 June 12:58

John Burnside's nature column.

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond.
By Jason Cowley - 06 June 12:40

An independent Scotland would be viable but why break up Britain?

Ken Clarke on Jeremy Hunt and Baroness Warsi
By David Allen Green - 06 June 11:50

How powerful people see opposition.

Police independence is under threat
By Ian Blair - 06 June 11:43

Commissioners will be elected on tribal lines, warns former Met chief Ian Blair.

Katie Price.
By Samira Shackle - 05 June 10:12

The former glamour model will work with other local parents to open a school for the visually impaired.

Workers erect a giant photograph of the Royal family.
By Sophie Elmhirst - 30 May 14:14

Prince Philip nears the height of the Oxo Tower; Andrew’s teeth are the size of windows.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip stand onboard the Spirit of Chartwell.
By George Pascoe-Watson - 30 May 13:28

How Elizabeth and the Windsors became a top brand for the 21st century.

A sand sculpture of Queen Elizabeth II
By Sunder Katwala - 30 May 13:23

Republicanism is the least successful democratic project in my lifetime, says Sunder Katwala.

Queen Elizabeth in 1955
By Malcolm Muggeridge - 30 May 11:26

Malcolm Muggeridge's famous - and controversial - 1955 essay.

New Statesman
By Nelson Jones - 30 May 11:12

What's unusual is the role the monarchy plays as part of the national brand.

New Statesman
By Samira Shackle - 29 May 17:47

Young mother asks for an apology after being misrepresented as "benefit scrounger".

New Statesman
By Nelson Jones - 25 May 14:08

If everything has a price, does nothing have a value?

Afghan illegal immigrants wait for a train in Athens, Greece. April 2012. Photog
By Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi - 25 May 10:45

Undocumented migrants have skewed ideas about life in Europe.

Theresa May. Photograph: Getty Images
By Samira Shackle - 25 May 10:11

The Home Secretary becomes most senior politician to take part in Out4Marriage campaign.

New Statesman
By James Ball - 25 May 9:29

We need to be more open about issues facing men.

Alina Treiger, Germany’s first female rabbi.
By Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner - 23 May 18:13

A female rabbi argues that Jewish women should not be denied an equal portion of participation.

David Baddiel at the premiere of The Infidel
By David Baddiel - 23 May 17:51

Jewishness is in my bones, but I don’t want to make that much of a fuss about my ethnicity.

Will Self writes about whether he is Jewish
By Will Self - 23 May 17:00

Next they’ll be calling me a “British writer”.

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