Disraeli Room

...Today, given America's high levels of gun violence and crime, and the repeated mass casualty shootings that are occurring across our nation, the need for a regulatory response should be clear. It's long past time to break the NRA's stranglehold on the debate

This year marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of Octavia Hill. Hill was a moving force behind the development of social housing. As well the provision of safe, comfortable homes for more than 3,000 people in Victorian London, she was also a pioneer of modern social care, introducing the concept of joined-up services long before it became a fashionable policy. And of course, Hill is not an isolated example. The housing association movement has always had at its heart the importance of community, wellbeing and health...

Last week, just over a year after the Localism Act received Royal Assent, Rt Hon Greg Clark MP published his long-awaited progress report on the Government’s work to decentralise power from Whitehall to communities...

The fierce debate over the report is focused around the issue of whether oversight of media ethics should be carried out by the state, by the industry itself, as has previously been the case, or an entirely independent body. It is broadly agreed that regulation needs to be tightened, but at stake is the centuries old British tradition of press freedom