Opinion

Without wider reform, the increase in wages will effectively be like allowing workers to buy new skates but leaving them on thin ice, CLASS director Faiza Shaheen writes.
Britain has a special responsibility to Hong Kong. Surely, it is now time to declare that China is in breach of its international obligations, writes Stephen Twigg, chair of the International Development Committee
Today I'm announcing extra support to young people with higher barriers to work, including disabled people, care leavers, and young offenders, writes work and pensions secretary Thérèse Coffey
We have entered an era where being called a racist is seemingly considered a worse crime than actual racism, says writer Amna Saleem.
The prime minister's refusal to resign only increases the Conservative party’s reliance on this single strategic thread, freelance journalist Ravi Ghosh writes.
With an election looming, destabilising the prime minister might not be in the best interests of the Conservative party, UK in a Changing Europe director Anand Menon writes.
From childhood, girls are conditioned to be amenable. How inspiring and important, then, that the teenage activist didn’t cut the tension at the UN by flashing a smile, opinion editor Lucy Pasha-Robinson writes.
No lawyer, no matter how brilliant, could argue what Boris Johnson did was anything other than an unprecedented power grab, Tim Walker writes.
Putting inspections into the hands of communities will be far more effective than an inspector swooping in every few years, New Local Government Network director Adam Lent writes.
As governments battle to protect men’s jobs in manufacturing and steel, there's eerie silence over the 6,000-odd women's jobs lost at the travel group, Sophie Walker writes.