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| Wednesday 21 September 2011 |
Problems in political life? Blame the Lib Dems!
Tories and Labour are bashing Nick Clegg’s pathetic party to try to hide the fact that they are all like the politics-lite Liberal Democrats now.
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| Wednesday 14 September 2011 |
Fewer MPs? We need more Politicians
Plans to cut the quantity of UK members of parliament will do nothing to improve the execrable quality of British political life today.
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| Tuesday 6 September 2011 |
Our war on the politics of fear
How the reactions to 9/11 proved that the world had already changed – and helped to shape the political targets of a new magazine called spiked.
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| Tuesday 23 August 2011 |
A hole in more than a windscreen
What an act of petty vandalism on a Salford estate reveals about British society after the recent riots.
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| Monday 15 August 2011 |
Theatrical ‘fightback’ turns to farce
In their post-riot crackdown, the UK authorities looked like scared schoolboys acting tough once the fight is over.
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| Wednesday 10 August 2011 |
Why the police are in a state of impotence
The British authorities’ confused and fearful response to the recent urban rioting has exposed the crisis of state authority today.
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| Wednesday 3 August 2011 |
How British politics became trivial pursuits
What's really behind the summer headlines about David Cameron, that Italian waitress, Rupert Murdoch and Amy Winehouse?
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| Tuesday 19 July 2011 |
‘Of course I support a free press, but…’
All-party support for regulating the media threatens to reverse the historic gains of the struggle for press freedom.
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| Tuesday 12 July 2011 |
‘You cannot pluck the rose without the thorn’
The death of a free press, the hacking off of investigative journalism - the scandals nobody is talking about.
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| Monday 4 July 2011 |
Did that ‘historic’ public-
sector strike really happen?
The one-day strike over public-sector pension reform looked more like a fancy-dress fantasy re-enactment of battles of the past.
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| Wednesday 29 June 2011 |
The death of the Tory Party is announced at Glasto
Forget the conspiracy theories – the story should be the obituary for Conservatism Cameron’s ally wrote before he died in the Glastonbury toilets.
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| Thursday 23 June 2011 |
British trade unions: General Shrug now!
Unions claim that protests over public-sector pension reform will be the biggest since the General Strike. Dream on, brothers.
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| Tuesday 14 June 2011 |
Must we watch this political death show on our TVs?
All the highly publicised ‘revelations’ of personal spats confirm that the body formerly known as the Labour Party is fit only for a private burial.
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| Wednesday 8 June 2011 |
UK capitalism: ‘Plan B’? A Plan A might be a start
Britain's Tory chancellor basks in worthless IMF approval, yet neither his government nor the opposition has an idea beyond A for Austerity.
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| Tuesday 31 May 2011 |
Mladic, war crimes and the West: unasked questions
The response to the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb commander shows how some pine for the good v evil parable of their Balkan crusade.
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| Tuesday 24 May 2011 |
Spanish protests: Viva, err... what, exactly?
The sit-in protests in Madrid and elsewhere are more a symbol of the problems of European radicalism than an offshoot of the Arab spring.
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| Thursday 19 May 2011 |
L’affaire DSK: French right to private lives on trial
That one French statesman has been charged with sexual assault is no reason to attack the civilised distinction between public and private affairs.
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| Monday 9 May 2011 |
Have we ended up with AV‑style politics anyway?
Despite the crushing of the Alternative Vote in the referendum, the UK elections confirmed the strength of the anti-political trends AV embodies.
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| Tuesday 26 April 2011 |
It’s not 1981 all over again
There might be more cynicism about this royal wedding than Charles and Diana’s – but what’s good about that?
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| Wednesday 20 April 2011 |
The strange death of the NATO alliance
Why is the West’s North Atlantic Treaty Organisation squabbling over who should bomb north Africa, 20 years after the Cold War ended?
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