Tag Archive: Domestic (UK)

My Granny Speech

January 19, 2012 8:25 am Leave your thoughts

Attending social security and disability appeal tribunals in 2012 is like watching a Dickens adaptation on the television, says Felix McHugh.

Can the far-right be blamed for their Ignorance?

January 17, 2012 8:09 am Leave your thoughts

For years now the debate over choices of far-right supporters has created social and ethical tensions. Since the political rumble of the 1970s and 1980s, which sparked far-left and far-right tensions, the far-right membership has increased and declined more than any other political following, writes Elijah Pryor.

Why Miliband and Balls have got it wrong

January 15, 2012 9:01 am Leave your thoughts

The capitulation by Labour to the austerity and cuts agenda of the Tories and the right-wing press has been confirmed by shadow chancellor Ed Balls' statement that Labour would not be able to reverse the Tory cuts and would maintain the pay freeze within the public sector if they come to power at the next election, says John Wight.

Damned Scroungers

January 11, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts

Dr Tomasz Pierscionek reviews a book challenging one of the last remaining forms of prejudice deemed 'socially acceptable' in modern Britain. (This book is now free to download from this review.)

The State of Racism in Britain

January 9, 2012 11:57 am Leave your thoughts

UK society is dead. Or that is what its detractors would like you to think. Many will point the finger not at our leaders or themselves but towards those who they believe don't belong here - immigrants and asylum seekers, writes Chris Bath.

A Ghost Story Retailed (part two)

January 5, 2012 9:27 am Leave your thoughts

W Stephen Gilbert delivers an up-to-date, state and fate of the retail trade in Britain, it is partly warmingly, personal and anecdotal, and partly a critical overview: part two...

In Memoriam

January 3, 2012 7:46 pm Leave your thoughts

It has long been said that justice delayed is justice denied, yet it would be hard to find anyone to agree with this sentiment over the conviction of David Norris and Gary Dobson for the murder of Stephen Lawrence 18 years ago, writes John Wight.