With lecturers on strike, student debt being sold off to the banks, the anger of the 2010 protests is about to make a comeback, says Josiah Mortimer
A degree of surveillance is necessary, but key to its functioning in a democracy must be oversight and accountability and as much transparency as is possible. Here are some ideas.
Arms company BAE Systems always have adverts at Parliament's underground station. Why do they feel the need to buy these posters? What does this tell us about their political position?
The Parthenon Marbles (or 'Elgin Marbles') were sculpted in Greece in 447–438 BC, and stolen from there by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century. They are kept in the British Museum. This is a speech recently given by Henry Porter, at an event calling for their return.
Just as the wandering elites of Damascus, Cairo or Tripoli seek salvation in London, the peripatetic poor and needy of the very same countries are drowning to the distant putting sound of an indifferent life-boat.
Plans to privatise student the student loan book threaten to become a de facto retrospective fee hike. Recent graduates are already chained by debt; we must fight these dangerous plans.
The good news is that there is a growing network of campaigners and academics who are not just focused on preventing more wars but also on understanding the longer term effects of war on the way we live.
The same press attacking the Guardian for 'treason' are still raging against the press reform charter for encroaching on "press freedom". The hypocrisy aside, the British press should accept the will of parliament, the public and the press' victims.
Avoiding youth radicalization begs for deeper thinking about the way in which the west conceives of itself with regard to the rest of the world and how it maintains and projects this image.
The recent debate over military action in Syria – and the upcoming Commons Defence Committee’s Inquiry on UK intervention strategy - shows how data and information in conflict is changing the imperatives of decision-making.
An extended extract from Marcus Chown's new book, What A Wonderful World, on capitalism, its history, its myths, and why change is needed to correct our 'disembedded' economy.
