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 In the immortal words of Corporal Jones, don’t panic. The bad news is well-known: the British Nazi Party has won two seats to the European Parliament. The good news is that this does NOT threaten political civilisation as we know it, or prove that racism is rampant in Britain’s electorate. We risk turning a problem into a crisis only if we over-react and end up giving the BNP exposure, and credibility, it does not deserve.
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 For six decades Peter Townsend campaigned against poverty, wrote volumes of academic work, virtually invented the idea of relative poverty, and worked enthusiastically to support causes he strongly believed in. Even at the age of 81, his enthusiasm for his work was undimmed.
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 Sideline Europe and you sideline Britain -- that was the message from Foreign Secretary David Miliband at a Fabian debate. While political and constitutional reform was now the centre of attention for all parties, the Conservatives were pushing a “Europhobe” political programme “under the smokescreen of a reform agenda”, said Miliband.
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 Former London mayor Ken Livingstone joined Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband at the Fabians' Road to Copenhagen conference on June 20.
Read the speech here or scroll down for live video.
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 Nostalgia in football can be a dangerous thing. Many different debates get mixed up: the terraces against all-seater stadia; the impact of foreign talent on the domestic game; whether today's players require skills and athleticism in a different league from their forebears, or whether the achievements of a Moore, Best, or Cantona will ever be surpassed. Debates about the greatest teams, players and goals will never be resolved, according to a new Fabian report on football mobility.
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