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Monday 6 February 2012
No Jubilee for republicans – or royalists The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee throws the spotlight on royalty that is not very regal, and critics who are not really republican.

Tuesday 31 January 2012
What about a rescue deal for Euro-democracy? A ‘secret’ German proposal for a commissioner to veto Greek budgets sparked outrage. But the EU has already usurped Greece’s sovereignty.

Wednesday 25 January 2012
The Leveson Inquiry is the enemy of a free press Now it's out: Lord Justice Leveson wants quasi-state regulation - in the name of 'press freedom'.

Thursday 19 January 2012
The shared delusions of Labour and the unions Labour Party leader Ed Miliband versus the British trade union bosses? A plague on both their empty houses.

Thursday 12 January 2012
Cameron and Salmond: like kids playing with matches The row over a Scottish referendum looks less a struggle between Unionism and Nationalism than a dangerous game of all-party opportunism.

Thursday 5 January 2012
Official anti-racism: the new nationalism? Once the establishment preached the doctrine of race and nation - now the elites have redefined racism as ‘a secular sin’.

Thursday 29 December 2011
Bleak midwinter of the economy Things went from bad to worse for capitalism, yet big questions about the crisis were frozen out of debate.

Wednesday 21 December 2011
Velvet Revolution: no script for a democratic uprising Playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel owed his status as anti-Communist rock star more to the West than to the Czech people.

Thursday 15 December 2011
Europe united - in denial and myth-making Almost everything we’ve been told about the ‘historic’ Euro-crisis summit is wrong. Here are five Euro-myths for starters.

Wednesday 7 December 2011
Serious journalists ♥ slebs for censorship Why those who normally abhor celebrity culture are cheering the likes of Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan against the celeb-obsessed tabloids.

Wednesday 30 November 2011
Evoking the ghost of general strikes past The day of industrial action over UK public sector pensions is a gesture, not a general strike – and both sides know it.

Monday 21 November 2011
That’s enough anti-racist blather about Blatter The obnoxious FIFA president had a point for once – and the real targets of the moral backlash are the masses who watch and play football.

Wednesday 16 November 2011
The UK press is on trial for its freedom... … and the tabloids have already been found guilty by Lord Justice Leveson’s inquiry/inquisition.

Wednesday 9 November 2011
Berlusconi: don’t turn a scoundrel into a scapegoat Whatever else he might have done, Italy’s prime minister is hardly to blame for Europe’s crisis of capitalism and political leadership.

Thursday 3 November 2011
Beware of Greeks bearing votes! The Euro-elites’ horror at the proposal to hold a Greek referendum on the bailout shows that Europe is at risk of democratic bankruptcy.

Wednesday 26 October 2011
EU referendum: democracy is not a ‘distraction’ We cannot suspend democratic debate about Europe’s future while watching the political elites bungle the economic crisis.

Wednesday 19 October 2011
The unhidden truth about Hillsborough The political reasons why 96 Liverpool fans died in the football disaster of 1989 have always been clear enough to those who want to see.

Tuesday 11 October 2011
For Fox sake, call this politics? That's scandalous Neither the idiot-abroad UK defence secretary nor scandal-mongering critics seem able to separate important public issues from personal sleaze.

Tuesday 4 October 2011
Euro-crisis: dictatorship of the bean-counters The bankrupting of democracy is too high a price to pay for the Euro-elites’ scheme to save their system through more austerity and integration.

Tuesday 27 September 2011
Defend a free press - don’t just guard the Guardian Yes, the police threat to the liberal newspaper was outrageous – but who invited the authorities to crack down on the press in the first place?
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