Will workfare be well paid?

Aaron Peters explains why workfare is here to stay. But what are the limits to its generosity?

Leveson is not an Establishment stich up

Leading left-of-centre columnists are wrong to denounce the Leveson proposals as being designed to protect the priviliged. There is a real need to regulate the corporate press and the way it abuses of its power.

Can you help fund an editor for OurNHS?

The campaign to restore the NHS is heating up and a number of leading organisations are starting to build a clearer roadmap of how to work together to secure a nationalised health service after the 2015 election. As part of that, OurNHS needs a full time editor. We really need your help to do that.

New report confirms problems of short custodial sentences for children

Warehousing children in a prison filled with other troubled young people, often for a period of weeks, is counterproductive, inhumane and a pitiful waste of public money.

Exposing the Big Lie at the heart of this economic catastrophe

Budget week thoughts: The people who got us into this fix are holding the world to ransom by their speculative lunacy and greed. The big brake is not government debt.

Weaponising workfare

Workfare recognises a reality that the TUC and many on the left haven't - our current model of production, from a social perspective, is crumbling. Make workfare a weapon for change.

 

Radioactive Y-fronts and the limits of Parliamentary scrutiny

This week the nuclear industry and its Westminster friends celebrated the dawning of a new age, as French energy giant EDF won planning consent to construct Hinkley Point C in Somerset. Meanwhile, in Cumbria, elderly Sellafield contracts out its dirty laundry.

Did comic art save Cumbria from the nuclear dump?

Earlier this year, Cumbria county council woke up to the reality behind decades of government propaganda and nuclear industry spin and rejected a plan to bury radioactive waste in England’s Lake District. 

Amended section 75 regulations still break promises on NHS competition

Despite amendments being made it appears the fundamentals have not been altered. Without urgent action from parliament and the public, April 1st will see the NHS fundamentally reconfigured as a competitive market system.

Shocked but not Awed – openDemocracy and Iraq

Soon after it started openDemocracy was plunged into the war on terror and the preparations for the Iraq war. They defined its editorial approach. oD's founding editor looks back to argue that so much more remains to be done.

From Iraq to Hacked Off – ten years of Britain trying not to change

Still they continue to caricature and minimise the opposition at the time as they sense the threat to the balance of power. But the fact is this. Without the battering ram of the Murdoch press especially, and media generally, the UK Parliament could not have voted for the Iraq invasion.

Ten years on from Iraq: protest in the age of broken democracy

Protest does work, is the legacy and lesson of Iraq ten years after the invasion.

Another G4S scandal: UK's privatised asylum housing market is falling apart

The sensitive work of housing vulnerable asylum seekers appears to be defeating the world’s biggest security company. A leaked letter from G4S director (a former Rentokil executive) illuminates the unfolding crisis.

Why an arms trade treaty won't stop the arms trade

As UN negotiations on the proposed arms trade treaty resume, why are long-time arms control campaigners sceptical of an agreement? An op-ed from Ann Feltham of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).

Their secret is out, but for G4S and friends ‘abject disregard' for human dignity persists

Landlords get richer. Women are harassed in their homes. The UK Border Agency's contractor G4S is using subcontractors who are not up to the task. The newly privatised market in asylum housing is a shambles and a warning.

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