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The Lewisham scandal: market failure and the NHS
Next week Jeremy Hunt will announce the closure of A&E and maternity services, in the face of a concerted campaign which culminated in today’s 20,000+ march. I don’t think he has any realistic...
View ArticleWomen offenders: radical reform still urgently needed
A leading prison reformer argues that most women in prison today in England and Wales could be rehabilitated more effectively through a community sentence.This morning I gave evidence on behalf of the...
View ArticleAdd voter suppression to the disadvantages of the poor and marginal
The debate over the boundary review has overshadowed an imminent threat to British democracy. Proposed changes to the electoral register are likely to see voter numbers fall significantly. Who are...
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Ukraine: Yanukovych's 'Family' spreads its tentacles
Last October, Ukraine’s ruling Party of the Regions won only a slim election victory, but President Viktor Yanukovych has taken the opportunity to pack his new government with members of his ‘Family’ –...
View ArticleIndian farmers trapped and desperate
A wave of suicides has swept through the Indian farming community in recent years as, driven into heavy debt by deadly competition, many small farmers don't see another way out. A market-fundamentalist...
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What was the real purpose of Virgin's mysterious report into NHS customer...
In 2000, Labour asked Virgin to report on customer services in the NHS. What they delivered went well beyond this remit, proposing policies and agendas eerily similar to what would become New Labour's...
View ArticleGenocide of the Pakistani Hazara: where does the responsibility lie?
The targeted killing of Pakistan's Shia Hazara minority continues. The Pakistani government remains inactive. Impunity makes the government partially responsible.Thousands of people all over the world...
View ArticleBriefing paper - the NHS reinstatement bill
An explanation of what David Owen's new bill is trying to achieve and why it is needed The Abolition of the democratic and legal basis for the NHS in EnglandThe democratic and legal basis for the NHS...
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Czech presidential vote: a society divided
This Saturday's election saw the victory of former PM Milos Zeman over current Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg. The duel between a decried populist and an old-school aristocrat revealed a division...
View ArticleVictims behind bars – foreign national women are being trafficked into...
Trafficked as children, repeatedly raped, yet these women are just criminals to the UK justice system.“I started fetching water door to door for people in the community [in Nigeria]. There was a couple...
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Britain's European catharsis
Like Greece, Spain and Germany before, Britain now faces a cathartic moment when she needs to decide what price it is worth paying to stay in the European Union. Coolheaded rationality must prevail...
View ArticleAnglo-American media: why so interested in Latin America’s human rights abuses?
In the 1980s and 1990s, elite Anglo-American media sources cared more about Latin American abuses than those occurring anywhere else in the world. Why?When journalists report on human rights abuses,...
View ArticleFemale Islamic leadership in Sweden
In Sweden, women establish religious authority as they are appointed leaders in Muslim youth associations. Their commitment is intertwined with identity politics, leading their activism out beyond the...
View ArticleWomen in Morocco: political and religious power
Whilst women are struggling to gain access to parliament in Morocco, in the religious field they are gaining ground as a legitimate authority. Whether female religious authorities will contribute to...
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Taking back the economy: the market as a Res Publica
Republicans seek to protect and promote individual freedom. So do libertarians of the right. The difference? Republicans recognise that the market is constructed through political, public action.Image:...
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The great NHS robbery
Award winning author, Marcus Chown, summarises the reality of what has happened to the NHS, the quality of press coverage and why it is so important the public understand the truth beneath the...
View ArticleTearing Egypt apart
The eruption of protests, violence and civil disobedience in Egypt this month is a replay of the scene in 2011 before the status quo was ruptured, but the current regime’s attacks on women and...
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Bliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
Bookshops are places where the rhizome of culture breaks ground, connected beneath the earth but apparently separate on the surface. But in Morocco at least, something dreadful is happening to girls...
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Cameron’s backward-looking speech
Britain is at a fork in the road with a choice to make about what role it will play in the 21st century. Yet, David Cameron’s long-awaited speech about Europe is a miscalculation that will leave...
View ArticleThe disasterous HQ of Britain's secret service
The government is persisting in its efforts to pass the so-called Justice and Security Bill that will introduce secret judicial processes that will permit the covert-up of illegal activity by the...
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