Line of Battle
March 27, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The 'private good, public bad' madness sees a bedroom tax foisted on the poor while the rich amass vast property wealth, writes George Monbiot.
Tag Archive: Domestic (UK)
Press regulation and parliamentary sovereignty
March 25, 2013 8:56 am Leave your thoughts
Patriotism is meaningless unless it extends to active participation in the fight against each and all of the threats to our sovereignty, to our liberty, and to our parliamentary and municipal democracy, writes David Lindsay.
The Booing of Churchill
March 20, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Viewers of Ken Loach's The Spirit of '45 are shocked to see Winston Churchill being booed and heckled during the 1945 General Election campaign. They ought not to be remotely surprised writes David Eade
A long and dishonourable tradition
March 19, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
George Osborne may be just about the last person in Britain to believe that austerity offers a real path to recovery from recession and the resumption of growth - and it may be doubted that even he remains a true believer, writes Bryan Gould
Barbican Centre Cleaners in Historic Strike for the Living Wage
March 18, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Election Day for the Corporation of London will see a strike of cleaners at the Barbican Centre
The choice to be British
March 15, 2013 6:42 am Leave your thoughts
Congratulations to the British Falkland Islanders, including the large Saint Helenian community there, some of whom are my relatives on my mother's side, writes David Lindsay after a referendum that was controversial in some parts of the world.
Labour’s chance. Will they take it?
March 13, 2013 5:59 am Leave your thoughts
Jim Murphy may speak truer than he knows. Labour is on course for a majority of over 80, with UKIP quite capable of handing scores of Conservative seats to the Lib Dems, writes David Lindsay.
A Capitalist Command Economy
March 11, 2013 8:42 am Leave your thoughts Forcing schools into the hands of unelected oligarchs is the latest contradiction of everything the market fetishists claim to stand for, writes George Monbiot.
John Lewis Cleaners to Strike for the Living Wage
March 4, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Cleaners at the John Lewis Partnership are to ballot for strike action at the flagship Oxford Street store. This is the first step in the revived campaign to win the Living Wage for all cleaners employed by John Lewis
After Eastleigh
March 1, 2013 8:59 pm Leave your thoughts
Labour's disastrous showing at Eastleigh is a self-inflicted wound but it still needs a friendly critic and a critical friend, writes David Lindsay.