Category: politics

Secrets and Lies

Brexit should be halted until we know who paid for the Leave vote

This election could transform our captured, corrupted nation. The outcome, as ever, belongs to those who turn up

How dark money is subverting democracy in the UK.

Those who claim to be “conservatives” would shred the very fabric of the nation.

I would rather live with Jeremy Corbyn’s gentle dithering than Theresa May’s brutal efficiency

Why would Scotland wish to be tethered to the political wasteland south of the border?

Digital technologies could be used to destroy democracy, or to save it.

This is how to stop demagogues and extremists: rebuild community.

Our democracies are broken, debased and distrusted. Here are some ideas for restoring them.

In the first of a series of columns about possible solutions, I explore how commons could transform society and the distribution of wealth

Why is there a worldwide revolt against politics as usual? Because corporate globalisation has crushed democratic choice.

Donald Trump’s staff are drawn from an opaque network of corporate-funded thinktanks and fake grassroots campaigns

How a ruthless network of super-rich ideologues killed choice and destroyed people’s faith in politics

Donald Trump is not an outlier, but the distillation of our dominant values

Democracy cannot work as it is meant to; human nature does not allow it.

If we saw it anywhere else, we would recognise our political funding system as utterly corrupt

The Labour Party can survive, but only if it’s prepared to form an alliance with other parties

The decision to leave the EU is a disaster, but also a great opportunity for renewal

The European Union looks thoroughly rotten – until you compare it to the alternatives.

Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.