A tableau for Thatcher

Tjebbe van Tijen 17 April 2013

Nothing lasts... (visual montage)

Never again? Jeremy Hunt’s response to the Francis Report is inadequate

Roger Kline 17 April 2013

The Coalition's response to the Mid-Staffs enquiry is hampered by its own ideological limitations and its destructive NHS privatisation.

Ding Dong

OurKingdom 17 April 2013

Radical artist Peter Kennard was a chief satirist of Thatcher during her era. On the day of her funeral, we revisit some of the images that captured the Iron Lady and her demons.

A Staggering Century - and the New Statesman you never saw

Anthony Barnett 16 April 2013

He was a contender! openDemocracy's co-founder looks back to his frustrated attempt in 1986 to be made editor of Britain's formost leftwing weekly, the New Statesman, as he celebrates its revival on its 100th birthday. See what it might have been.

The power of the past after Thatcher

Gerry Hassan 16 April 2013

Britain has long been a country that looks back to a romanticised, recreated past. But what kind of country will we be celebrating and mourning with Thatcher's funeral tomorrow?

BMJ: the end of England's NHS?

Richard Fitzgerald 16 April 2013

A consultant radiologist looks at some of practical dangers of the Coalition's privatisation of NHS services, described by the BMJ as potentially the end of England's NHS, and urges peers to vote against the privatisation regulations.

Statehood and the problem of flux: a case for interculturalism

Ted Cantle 16 April 2013

While states attempt to assert their relevance in a global age through both multiculturalism and top-down nationalism, new models of identity and strategies of participation need to be developed to deal with the co-existing phenomena of national experience and cosmopolitanism. 

The 'Patriot' Prime Minister

Mike Small 15 April 2013

It is time to disassociate Thatcher from liberty. Look at her era of repressing dissent, protest and freedom of expression. She must not go down in history as a 'champion of freedom and democracy'. 

Is there an alternative to locking up migrants in the UK?

Jerome Phelps 15 April 2013

If detention is a tool of war on irregular migration, then the damage on both sides is severe. But this war is not inevitable. There is a significant area of potential common interest in a fair system that works primarily by consent

Thatcher's lessons for social democrats

Nick Pearce 12 April 2013

Thatcher utilised three emergent themes: globalisation, social liberalism and the reconfiguration of class structure. She used the spirits of the age to drive her own key project - unfettered markets. There is plenty the left could learn here.

Thatcher, a woman? Not on my terms

Glenda Jackson 12 April 2013

In her speech in the House of Commons, Glenda Jackson caused uproar on the Conservative benches for her forthright attacks on Thatcher and her legacy. This is what she said.

Marriage: one man and one woman?

Charlotte Methuen 12 April 2013

The Church of England currently rules out public blessings to same-sex marriages. A theologian explores the terrain.

On hagiographies and Thatcher’s foreign policy

Christopher Barrie 12 April 2013

Very little has been said about Thatcher's dealings with General Pinochet, apartheid South Africa, the Khmer Rouge, the House of Saud and Saddam Hussein (issues we raised within hours). Let's be clear on exactly what we are being told to "pay tribute" to.

Thatcher: Al Jazeera interview with Anthony Barnett

OurKingdom 11 April 2013

A video interview with Anthony Barnett for Al Jazeera. The cult of the leader, North Sea Oil, the sale of weapons to Saddam Hussein and more.

Squeezing the poor out of London

Cecil Sagoe 11 April 2013

From April 2013 major changes to benefit provision in Britain will likely change both the social and spatial make-up of our cities. The squeezing out of poorer residents from London and elsewhere, raises an important question: exactly who has the ‘right’ to the city in contemporary Britain?

Restating Scotland

Restating Scotland

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OurNHS

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Democratic Wealth

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Thatcher's legacy

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G4S: securing whose world?

G4S - securing whose world? Image of security camera focused on G4S

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Re-birth of the nation?

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Devalue or Else!

Roj, Flickr

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Can Europe Make It?

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