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| Thursday 25 June 2009 |
They need more than sympathy for Neda
The way that the image of a dying student has become the icon of the Iranian protests suggests both strengths and weaknesses in the opposition.
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| Tuesday 16 June 2009 |
Another Iranian revolution? If only…
Will protesters in Tehran win real change - or be used as a stage army for conservative opposition leaders who only want another palace coup?
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| Monday 8 June 2009 |
Expenses, excuses and Labour delusions
Whether Gordon Brown stays or goes, New Labour’s political crisis goes far deeper than him.
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| Monday 1 June 2009 |
They’re all ‘independent’ now - but from what?
In response to the expenses scandal, even the PM wants to stand on his personal conscience rather than political principles. But we still need politics.
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| Tuesday 26 May 2009 |
When all else fails, bash the BNP
In its phoney moral crusade to stop the British National Party, the elite has replaced politics with emotional blackmail.
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| Wednesday 20 May 2009 |
Libel law is a bogus excuse for justice
A case involving the respected science writer Simon Singh proves again that the English libel courts are no place to seek the truth.
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| Tuesday 12 May 2009 |
MPs’ expenses: what price democracy?
When politicians’ claims for the cost of a bath plug can knock the recession out of the headlines, politics is in danger of going down the gurgler.
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| Wednesday 6 May 2009 |
Where have all the
history-makers gone?
The ongoing collapse of the New Labour government confirms that the crisis of political leadership is even deeper than the economic one.
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| Wednesday 29 April 2009 |
Old Labour for New? No chance
The UK government’s tax rise for the better off does not mark a return to Labour’s socialist past – it is a classic New Labour stunt for today.
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| Tuesday 21 April 2009 |
Why are the police in a state?
Neither police brutality nor anti-police sentiment are what they once were in British society - yet the crisis of authority appears worse than ever.
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| Wednesday 15 April 2009 |
HILLSBOROUGH: only half-remembered
The deaths of 96 Liverpool fans were not only a tragic accident; they were also the unintended consequence of a deliberate policy.
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| Friday 3 April 2009 |
Remembering Britain’s forgotten civil war
The history of the 1984-85 miners' strike has been either rewritten or erased altogether. The miners, and history, deserve better.
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| Monday 30 March 2009 |
Sleaze: time for some ‘adult’ debate
As the UK government is thrown into turmoil by the home secretary’s claim for £10 worth of porn films, how much lower can politics go?
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| Friday 27 March 2009 |
Remembering Britain’s forgotten civil war
The history of the 1984-85 miners' strike has been either rewritten or erased altogether. The miners, and history, deserve better.
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| Tuesday 17 March 2009 |
No continuity in Northern Ireland
Forget the fears of a return to the past. History has moved on, that war is over, and it ain’t coming back.
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| Wednesday 11 March 2009 |
They f*** you up, your kids
The furore over Julie Myerson’s book about her drug-using son marks a downward spiral from childhood misery memoirs to misery mum-oir.
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| Monday 2 March 2009 |
Should private tragedies be for public consumption?
Reactions to the untimely death of the Tory leader’s young son reveal much about the problems with the media and politics today.
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| Tuesday 24 February 2009 |
State-run banks won’t save Britain — or even Brown
There is seemingly no financial crisis so bad that it cannot be made potentially worse by the prime minister’s intervention.
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| Wednesday 11 February 2009 |
Now it’s a war on words
Free speech controversies involving Prince Harry, Carol Thatcher and Jeremy Clarkson show the new thought police are in danger of running riot.
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| Wednesday 4 February 2009 |
Wild claims and wildcat strikes
The walkouts over foreign workers are neither evidence of a wave of xenophobia nor a re-emergence of trade union militancy.
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