The defence of the union in true Tory tradition has begun, with a speech by former Prime Minister John Major: conciliatory on the surface, while aiming at protecting the bastardised British state
The government's higher education proposals would see a fundamental reversal of the direction of reform embarked upon in the post-war period
The Coalition plans to put "students at the heart of the system" with its higher education reforms. But the White Paper proposals would lead to the disempowerment of students, re-modeling them as consumers of education, no longer part of the learning process
There is a vital need, for the sake of the future, for new forms of collective action to combine feeling with thought, neither denying the seriousness of the crisis nor closing our minds to a ‘radical hope’ that deep political change is possible. Empathetic imagination is as necessary as science.
We can no longer have a welfare system where recipients get something for nothing. So says the Labour leader, but before lecturing benefit claimants on their rights and responsibilities, he would do well to examine the root causes of wage inequality and unemployment in this country
As new patterns of racial violence emerge throughout the UK, anti-racist campaigners need to forge new solidarities based on an understanding of local realities
