Sorry, I'll try and be clearer about.... my NHS reforms
Until we take a cold, hard look at England and its place in the world, social democracy will continue to languish behind Offa’s Dyke and Hadrian’s Wall Social democracy can't be the territory to Scotland and Wales. British social democracy must go hand in hand with devolution
In this response to Jean-Paul Gagnon on the nation-state, Michael Gardiner argues that cultural homogeneity is unnecessary as a property of nationhood. Rather, participatory citizenship is what is at stake. Resorting to the term 'country-state' would open the gates to half-formed ethnicism and eth
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.
Playing around with debates, again. This time on the NHS reforms.
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
