Advertising and marketing firms have helped to promote individuality through the image of 'cool', something that was harnessed at the time of the 1968 protests. How has this concept evolved and in what way will it alter the direction of protest today?
Natives of the Chagos islands have had their human rights and their land mistreated and taken away from them. In our modern society, how is it still acceptable to oust people from their homeland and not even let them voice their concerns?
Is compassion being crowded out of the NHS by the language and values of consumer capitalism?
The royal birth is set to be the face of the 2013 summer, but to what extent does this reveal how little the media has changed since the phone hacking scandal in 2011? What happened to media reform?
Scottish politics has been saturated by nationalist and Labour ideologies and myths towards their right to rule, but in their political quests are they sacrificing the opportunity to be a tolerant and progressive state?
The marketisation of access to housing security is central to the increasingly normative experience of housing precarity in London. Lambeth Council's eviction of long-term squatted and short-life housing co-op communities is pouring fuel onto the fire: making people homeless to clear the way for p
Over half of the super-prime market is now owned by foreign wealth, funds and individuals – looking to make money by simply parking it there while stock markets and other forms of investment offer scant reward or sleepless nights.
Capitalist perpetrators of the crash are intent on using the opportunity provided by austerity to divert political and economic power to compliant nation states and emergent para-sovereign bodies, such as the EU Troika, that operate outside the constraints of democratic control and public accounta
The argument about students holds that there should not be a direct public subsidy of a private beneficiary. But on the impact agenda the situation is reversed. Here the Government’s view is that there should not be public funding unless there is a private beneficiary and that that beneficiary sho