More lies, gags and payoffs - and in the NHS, unlike in News International, the victims end up dead
Two London councils plan to charge children to play in public spaces, whilst another attempts to drive out homeless people from some of London’s most visited places. Has the time not come to assert our common right to the city?
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.
