Category: politics

Don’t Cry for Clare

Short’s career as a licensed rebel casts light on our post-oppositional, post-modern politics

The government won’t offer electoral choice; instead it has introduced voting gimmicks which will further undermine our faith in democracy

Far from handing elections to the right, protest votes galvanise the major players into action

Labour has become the workers’ enemy. It’s time the unions stopped funding it

The atomisation of society means that we must invent novel forms of political organisation

Charges of anti-Americanism are themselves anti-American

By refusing to engage with its critics, the government makes reason redundant.

It should be illegal to influence an MP’s vote

Labour’s determination to please the corporations is stifling political debate

Politics is moving out of Westminster, as our representatives avoid the real issues

William Hague’s bold new vision for Britain is to put us in the same position as Mexico

The only hope for American democracy is if Nader takes votes from Gore

The destruction of the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill by the “new” House of Lords shows that it’s just as bad as the old one

Councillors in Britain must be paid for the work they do.

At last the British Government is starting to protect the environment

The Government claims to be stamping it out: in truth it is encouraging it

The British National Party reinvents itself

Living Marxism’s interesting allegiances

The new Regional Development Agencies have no democratic legitimacy