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The double betrayal - review of NHS SOS
The left is forever being condemned for talking of ‘betrayal’. But it is our responsibility to describe accurately the lies and strategy that lie behind the dismemberment of the NHS and the blatant...
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The dangers of Reform - lobbying and the UK
Who really drives policy at Westminster, the unions or the big commercial lobbyists who appear to operate without any democratic process whatsoever, and with "charitable" status to boot?Nick Seddon,...
View ArticleNaked in the flat
Could you live without any belongings? Helsinki-based Petri Luukainen took radical action to conquer the clutter of his apartment: he got rid of all his stuff. This is the second video in our Everyday...
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A reformed role model: India, a reluctant rights promoter
A reply to Meenakshi Ganguly and Aseem Prakash. A far more instructive question they might have asked is, ‘is it in India’s interests to promote rights globally?’ - and regrettably the answer is...
View ArticleSquandering public money, BBC style
The culture of severance packages at the BBC has been exposed as so reckless with public money that there is talk of the police being brought in. Here's why.For all the BBC’s ability to enlighten and...
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Football in Turkey: A force for liberalisation and modernity?
The relationship between football and society in Turkey is unique and complex. Behind the corruption and fanaticism lies a culture that is challenging outdated social attitudes and leading Turkey's...
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Navalny steps into the ring
Alesksey Navalny was this morning unexpectedly released from custody, but he will be back in prison within a few weeks, says Grigorii Golosov. How has the opposition leader managed to become so...
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A Greek tragedy on the London stage: the City, the Eurozone crisis and an...
Capitalist perpetrators of the crash are intent on using the opportunity provided by austerity to divert political and economic power to compliant nation states and emergent para-sovereign bodies, such...
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Car parks for global wealth: the super-rich in London
Over half of the super-prime market is now owned by foreign wealth, funds and individuals – looking to make money by simply parking it there while stock markets and other forms of investment offer...
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In your ear
A quarter of all e-commerce will be conducted by mobile devices by 2016. Our Sunday Comics columnist, after a repulsive dream, tracks the various intrusions into his life via his phoneThis story is...
View ArticleWhy the relentless assault on abortion in the United States?
Americans have grown more supportive of same -sex marriages, gun control, immigration reform and even taxes on the wealthiest individuals. Why, then, have the cultural and political wars over abortion...
View ArticleEgypt: growing anger with western opinion
Selective reporting by the western media, and expert opinion predicting Egypt's future based on the familiar pattern of drawing blueprints that are disconnected from the pulse on the street, are...
View ArticleEviction Brixton: creating housing insecurity in London
The marketisation of access to housing security is central to the increasingly normative experience of housing precarity in London. Lambeth Council's eviction of long-term squatted and short-life...
View ArticleRacism, surveillance, and managing gender violence in the UK
New policies brought in to address violence against women in the UK are being implemented by large generic institutions at the expense of smaller specialist preventative and support organisations. For...
View ArticlePoland's 1980s, and "transitology" today
The 90th birthday of General Jaruzelski, the military figure who imposed martial law in Poland in 1981, was marked by a flurry of backward-looking, politicised debate. A pity, says Krzysztof Bobinski,...
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No platform for Billy Bragg
There is politics in any kind of collective cultural gathering, which is why attempts to repress youth and/or working-class culture continue to rain down from those with power, to those without it –...
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Women left behind as Libya's constitution-drafting moves forwards
The 60 candidates who are eventually elected must balance a huge range of competing issues and priorities in order to draft a document which the majority of Libyans will accept, and which will stand...
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Qatari foreign policy: a way out
It’s been a bad month. Rather than put money into the central bank in Cairo, why not help subsidise staple foods for Egypt’s poorest, or support relief aid in North Africa? Qatar has had a bad month, a...
View ArticleWhere are the Syrian Kurds heading amidst the civil war in Syria?
Although the civil war in Syria is ongoing, the Kurds have achieved major strides towards their rights by controlling a region for the first time in Syrian modern history.The emergence of the Syrian...
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Neoliberalism in Europe - weekly comments roundup
A look at our new front page, as well as this week's best reader comments on our Can Europe make it? debate.Much like our beloved continent, the Can Europe Make it? page is undergoing a structural...
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