Direct action group Climate Rush became 'unfair fare dodgers' last Saturday, to highlight ever increasing rail fares. The line they took, from London to Canterbury, has been hit by the highest fare hike in the country, and the fifty-seven protesters drew attention to this fact by paying just £7.40
As the UK moves towards a referendum on its voting system there is a lot of justified grumpiness about the exercise but is it the fault of having referendums or those who called it?
How much happiness does spending on the arts buy us? Which cultural pursuits are the most effective? And are these the questions the UK should be asking in formulating our arts policy?
openDemocracy is seriliasing The Skinback Fusiliers, a controversial new novel about life as a British squaddie. The book has already provoked fierce debate, on our own and other websites. Here, the author responds to some of these comments, clarifying his position and the nature of the novel.
Luke Cooper responds to Jonathan Moses' article on the Black Bloc. He argues that the group's "aesthetic wars" can only be reactionary in nature, not liberating.
As we publish episode four of the novel, the author defends his Skinback Fusiliers
We present the fourth of ten weekly episodes from a brutal novel by an acclaimed British author
The Populus Report, 'Fear and Hope', avoids the central role of politicians in creating a climate of ‘common sense racism’ within which the BNP and EDL have thrived, whilst appearing to endorse David Cameron’s recent ‘muscular liberal’ attack on multiculturalism.
The future of the centre left in Britain is dependent on the AV referendum result. A Yes vote would open the doors to a new politics, fit for a fluid, decentralised world. This is Labour's opportunity to shake off a deadly, elitist culture and embrace pluralism, dialogue and democracy
In Cameron's speech on immigration yesterday, he said that real integration takes time. James Lee of the Refugee Council agrees, but asks how the government plans to achieve this whilst enforcing cuts to ESOL classes that allow immigrants to learn the English language
The UK's deficit cutting plan is not going to work.
The British Prime Minister singles out immigration as he enters the campaigning season for local elections across much of the UK and summons up the shades of elections past.
