Comment Is Free: Striking workers must unite across Europe
Read the original post at the Guardian’s Comment Is Free Maria is a softly spoken teacher, but she’s clearly furious. As far as she is concerned, she is being mugged by the economic and political...
View ArticleGuardian Review: Owen Jones on writing about protests
Read the original article at the Guardian This year has been a blur of angry, determined crowds on the move: chanting, barricading and occupying. Each protest movement has differed in scale and...
View ArticleComment Is Free: The left must call the right’s bluff – and challenge the EU
You can read the original article at Comment Is Free The fallout from David Cameron’s “non” once again reveals one of the big myths of British politics. All critics of the European Union in its current...
View ArticleIndependent: The age of consensus is over. And I fear things are about to...
You can read the original article at the Independent Watching the trailer for The Iron Lady, the forthcoming biopic of Margaret Thatcher, I shuddered. All the indications are that her adoring fans will...
View ArticleIndependent: Here’s the question… Could you live on £67 a week?
You can read the original article at the Independent In a church in Birmingham Ladywood, one of Britain’s poorest communities, I recently sat next to Edwina Currie as she lectured poor people that they...
View ArticleLatest – and my neglected blog
It’s been a ridiculously hectic few weeks and I haven’t been publishing my articles to this blog – so apologies for just vomiting them all over the website at the same time. (I’ve included links to...
View ArticleNew Statesman: State of play
This appeared in the New Statesman’s ‘The political studies guide 2012′ on 21 November 2011 When Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection in 2008, it felt as though the world had fallen off a...
View ArticleIndependent: Gay people have come a long way – but hatred is still out there
When it comes to homophobia, it’s fair to say that ex-Everton football player Michael Ball doesn’t mince his words. “That fucking queer,” he tweeted about Coronation Street’s Antony Cotton. “Get back...
View ArticleI’ve joined the Independent
I’ve just started writing a weekly column at the Independent. I’ll use it as best I can as a platform for the causes, issues and people that I believe in. Writing for me is a means to an end, and I...
View ArticleThe Independent
Hello! Just a reminder that all my columns and blogs are now at the Independent website here…
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