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?

Women, Scotland and the crisis in economics

Ailsa McKay 11 April 2013

Economics, still a male-dominated discipline, excludes many issues of relevance to women in Scotland. No wonder they are being hit disproportionately by austerity measures.

Thatcher - black gold or red bricks?

Oliver Huitson 11 April 2013

Thatcher did not save Britain from economic decline. In many respects her economic performance was poor, even with the irresponsible fire-sale of British assets. It is time her legacy reflected this.

Games with shadows: living in Thatcher’s Scotland

Gerry Hassan 9 April 2013

We live in Thatcher’s Britain - that statement is obvious, yet contentious and deeply divisive. And this is all the more true north of the border.

The Lady is not Returning: Novara radio on Thatcher

Aaron Peters and James Butler 9 April 2013

The Novara radio show marks the death of Margaret Thatcher with nuanced, wide-ranging, radical analysis of the politician and her legacy.

What Thatcher did for Wales

John Osmond 9 April 2013

Which politician did most to secure devolution for Wales? Margaret Thatcher. The miners’ strike was the beginning of an era that proved time and again Welsh difference from Britain and alienation from the English.

Doctors have the opportunity to act now - they must take it

David Wrigley 9 April 2013

Through the Royal Colleges doctors have the means to stop the disastrous privatisation regulations about to go through parliament if they utilise the tools at their disposal. We are not powerless. Here is one clear and simple thing we can do.

The death of a class warrior: Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

Tom Mills 9 April 2013

Thatcher did not seek to win over 'hearts and minds'. Rather she attacked the social bases of collective thought and action, making building any alternative unimaginable. Throughout the long span of her life, she was a blue class warrior, through and through.

Thatcher was not the answer but a new direction was needed

Niki Seth-Smith 8 April 2013

Before advocating a return to a pre-Thatcher era of socialism and solidarity, remember the suffocating Labour years preceding her ascension. This House, playing at The National, takes us back to the last hurrah of a failing post-war consensus.

Bank-money and the betrayal of democracy

Ivo Mosley 8 April 2013

In this speech given at the PSA conference in Cardiff, the author examines the history and theory of bank money - credit - from a democratic perspective. How did this strange fraud come to be established under law?

Thatcher and the words no one mentions: North Sea Oil

Anthony Barnett 8 April 2013

Britain will never recover from being saved by Margaret Thatcher.

The debate over Scotland’s future: do women care?

Ailsa McKay 8 April 2013

What does the gender gap in attitudes towards independence tell us about Scottish women, their political attitudes and changing roles in society? This piece looks back to Gerry Hassan's article 'Mind the Gap' and gives a very different verdict.

openDemocracy writer longlisted for Orwell Prize

OurKingdom 8 April 2013

Clare Sambrook, one of OurKingdom’s co-editors, is among 14 nominees for the UK’s leading prize for political journalism.

Leeds Children's Heart Surgery: twisted statistics, conflicts of interest and hidden agendas

Steve Walker 8 April 2013

Has the government, once again, ignored due process and legal rulings in the decision to close down a children's unit at Leeds General Infirmary?

Restating Scotland

Restating Scotland

More

OurNHS

More

Democratic Wealth

More

G4S: securing whose world?

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

More

Re-birth of the nation?

More

Devalue or Else!

Roj, Flickr

More

Can Europe Make It?

More

Syndicate content