Persistent undermining of medical evidence that children are being harmed. Officials misleading ministers over a case of child sex abuse. Clare Sambrook’s evidence to the House of Lords suggests our democracy is in serious trouble.
A new epoch of democratic reform in Britain is needed to respond to the transformation of the British state, the disintegration of the old constitutional order and the rise of corporate power, now that hope of a Labour Lib Dem alliance for democracy is over. The pure but totalising strategy of the
Nick Clegg’s rise and fall as a celebrity politician highlights the Deputy Prime Minister as a victim of the increasing personification of British politics.
Dave Hartnett has struck deals with multinational corporations that have cost Britain billions in lost tax. In this video, direct action group UK Uncut pay him a surprise visit.
'Underclass', 'feral', 'feckless': these terms have gained new currency after England's August riots. Although not explicitly racist, together they form a coded language that casts working class and Black communities as the 'enemies within'.
One of the defendants arrested at Fortnum & Mason this spring, while protesting against public sector cuts, gives his account of the subsequent trial that has just seen ten convicted and sentenced for a peaceful protest.
This is the statement from the UKUncut defendants outside of court today after being found guilty of "aggravated trespass" for a peaceful sit in of Fortnum and Mason
Despite cross-party consensus that democracy must no longer be a stranger to the second chamber, a few naysayers are still arguing against real reform of 'the mother of all parliaments'. The Select Committee must, finally, get the job done.
A peculiarly British paralysis is the inheritance of a Burkean experience of time - we incur debts now in return for the promise of an ever-receding future. Yet a sense of immediacy is returning as part of a 'post-British' era.
A review of UNPROVOKED, a new play about girl-on-girl knife crime in London.
The privatisation of English higher education is bitingly analysed in this essential collection of essays. Does the book mark a new wave of opposition to corporate ideology from within England's universities?
