Human rights are undermined in the war on terror by the widespread use of blacklists.
Rupert Murdoch's News of the World has admitted that it illegally hacked into the phones of the famous and powerful, after years of denial. The really important story, however, is what this reveals about the corruption of state power in the United Kingdom by a global media conglomerate.
The Coalition’s justification for continuing to detain families with children is that otherwise they will abscond. This is simply not true, according to Professor Heaven Crawley.
Is it 1981 all over again in the UK? If so, it may not be such a bad thing.
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has proposed "three tests" that the banking commission and Chancellor George Osborne "need to pass" in order to protect the UK from another financial crisis.
We present the third of ten weekly episodes from a brutal novel by an acclaimed British author.
In this lecture, based on the book The Plot Against the NHS, co-author Colin Leys attempts to set the record straight on plans for a new healthcare market. He argues that the healthcare reforms proposed by the Coalition are not as radical as they seem, but are part of a plot to dismantle the NHS b
The House of Lords communications select committee is investigating the governance and regulation of the BBC. Changes since the election will increase the responsibilities of the BBC, with funding for
As the Scottish Parliament elections gather pace, the Londoncentric media are faced with a country not playing by the austerity rule book. And they don't like it. Last Sunday's 'The Politics Show' took the market dogma line, presenting Scotland as a dependency state refusing to acknowledge the eco
The method by which AV votes are counted makes it impossible to assess which winning candidates enjoy the genuine support of the majority. Therefore the parliamentary majorities produced by AV will be more unreliable, contestable and illegitimate than under the present system of First Past the Pos
The Black Bloc ‘tactic’ used at the March 26th anti-cuts demonstration is an entirely counterproductive dead-end.
