Beat the Cheat: an alternative take
March 11, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
With the Sun newspaper launching yet another campaign of 'Beat the Cheat', Felix McHugh highlights the problem of claimants being cheated out of their benefits
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Back to Basics in Palestine: Redefining Our Relationship to a People’s Struggle
March 9, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Palestinians are governed by laws without internationally recognizable legal frame of reference, a situation that allows Israel to justify the detention of Gaza patients seeking medical treatment outside their besieged area, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Digital Gods and Monsters
March 8, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Our world view is in danger of being dictated by the digital gods. Bryan Taylor reports on how Google and the social media we revel in are moulding themselves around us.
Has Europe abandoned the Left?
March 8, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
David Eade looks at whether there is any truth in the claim that the people of Europe have turned away from the parties of the Left
A Manifesto for Psychopaths
March 7, 2012 2:19 pm Leave your thoughts
Ayn Rand's ideas have become the Marxism of the new right, she may have died 30 years ago but the belief system constructed by her has never been more popular or influential, says George Monbiot.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Socialist and co-founder of evolutionary theory
March 7, 2012 8:47 am Leave your thoughts
Next year will see the centenary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace. Simultaneously with Darwin the discoverer of evolution due to natural selection, but history has largely eclipsed his name under Darwin's immense shadow, writes John Green.
The government’s tragic argument against opposition to NHS plans
March 7, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
When it comes to the Health Minister's plans for the National Health Service, the patients are against it, the nurses are against it, the doctors are against it, even the government are against it, says Chris Mason-Felsing.
Sixty years of philatelic pleasure, and now?
March 5, 2012 8:35 am Leave your thoughts
For the five or six generations of solitary, sedentary boys in the middle of which fell my vintage (the baby boomers), the hobby par excellence was collecting stamps, recalls W Stephen Gilbert.
The Florence Anderson Row
March 4, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Patrick Cawkwell brings attention to the unfair suspension of a Labour Party Councillor
A Rebel’s guide to Rosa Luxemburg:
March 3, 2012 1:00 am Leave your thoughts
Dr Tomasz Pierscionek reviews a book on the life and ideas of revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg