If the Prime Minister has his way, British civil society will soon be almost entirely at the mercy of the market. With the contracts signed, our democratic options will be drastically limited. A referendum on the Alternative Voting system may already be too little, too late.
The ornate rituals in Westminster Abbey, and Donald Trump’s investigation of President Obama’s birth certificate have something in common that threatens modern power, and it isn’t very modern.
We present the sixth of ten weekly episodes from a brutal novel by an acclaimed British author
More disturbing videos have emerged showing pre-crime arrests ahead of the royal wedding.
Web 2.0 is a venture capitalist’s paradise where investors pocket the value produced by unpaid users, ride on the technical innovations of the free software movement and kill off the decentralising potential of peer-to-peer production.
It has been said that AV would be a “beautiful British compromise”. But for its combination of madness, naked lies and bile, the campaign surrounding it has seemed distinctly American. The Yes side, on which I sit, has been slightly dull. The Noes have been fascinating, not only for their outrageo
If Facebook have acted at the request of a state body then the ‘Facebook Purge’ of activist accounts in the UK during the royal wedding is an issue with freedom of association and assembly at its very heart.
In an oddly self-fulfilling action, undercover police swoop to snatch a man singing "We all live in a fascist regime" in Soho Square on the day of the Royal Wedding. This is Britain in 2011.
The following is an anonymous personal account of the arrests of ten activists yesterday morning in London during the royal wedding for "committing a protest".
There appears to be a purge of political Facebook taking place
A Green laments the likely defeat of the AV referendum
If anyone was in any doubt that we have a highly politicized, out-of-control police force in the UK with scant regard for basic rights, the build up to the royal wedding provided a much-needed corrective.
