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UKIP, 'child catchers' and dignity

The latest scandal over foster services and the UKIP party reveal how low the British press can stoop. Will Leveson help at all?

By Stuart Weir

/ 28 Nov 2012

Why Jews are proud to be Spurs fans

Are Spurs fan's chants of 'Yid army" anti-semitic, as the Society of Black Lawyers have claimed, or this is a case of appropriating terminology as a means of nullifying it?

By Stuart Weir

/ 21 Nov 2012

A response to my critics on child benefit

A piece on the proposed limits to child benefit prompted a vigorous comment thread. Its author responds.

By Stuart Weir

/ 9 Nov 2012

The poisonous logic behind cuts to child benefit

Before British families bid what could be a final farewell to universal child benefit, we take a look at what is motivating Iain Duncan Smith.

By Stuart Weir

/ 29 Oct 2012

TUC London March and Rally no match for the coming catastrophe

Limited, moderate, ineffectual — we must do better than London's little uprising on Saturday 20 October.

By Stuart Weir

/ 22 Oct 2012

British Justice delayed? Abu Hamza and Kenyan torture victims

As Abu Hamza is extradicted to the US after a long process, those in Britain who complain about the delay should be ashamed of decades of procrastination over the crimes of its Empire.

By Stuart Weir

/ 7 Oct 2012

Blaggism: can the Lib Dems and Labour shake off the joint curse of beautiful leaders?

Their Party conference in Brighton showed Britain's Lib Dems embracing a Blair like leader in Nick Clegg. But this will drive them apart from Labour when progressives in both parties need each other.

By Stuart Weir

/ 30 Sep 2012

Mid-term blues in Brighton: a double report from the Lib Dem conference

If the bell is tolling for the Liberal Democrats, they built sound-proof walls for this year's party conference. Two reports from inside tell of the marked absence of a debate on leadership, despite Clegg's appalling unpopularity, and a religious cleaving to the creed of coalition.

By Stuart Weir and Andy May

/ 25 Sep 2012

The Hillsborough legacy testifies to the continuing contempt of Britain's elite

The ideological aftermath of police attempts to narrate the Hillsborough disaster cannot be swept under the carpet. The disdain of Britain's institutions towards the nation's diverse public will remain in place as long as power remains trapped in the hands of an elite.

By Stuart Weir

/ 14 Sep 2012

Cameron’s reshuffle will only feed the Tories' mini-dictators

The reorganising of the government ranks is underway in Westminster with Hunt and Lansley shifting into new positions and a mass shuffling of bureaucracy. Far from ‘productive’ the results will only facilitate the further abuse of power in British democracy.

By Stuart Weir

/ 4 Sep 2012

Harry's Romp

What the third in line to Britain's throne gets up to may reveal the culture of those even closer to it. After all, where did this behaviour come from, in a family which above all believes in inheritance? Add the toxic speciousness of Rupert Murdoch to the mix and the rest of the UK's media can cl

By Stuart Weir

/ 24 Aug 2012

The right to death as the right to one's own life

A British man recently lost his appeal asking for his impossible life to be ended with the help of doctors, instructed by the only means he had left for communication: blinking his eyes. He then refused all food and yesterday died. The Courts had ruled that Parliament must decide on the issue, but

By Stuart Weir

/ 23 Aug 2012