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If the left is to win the economic debate it has to be unashamedly tribal 27 Aug 2013 | 02:53 pm
There are three contrasting articles on the recovery in the Guardian this morning. The first is from Michael Meacher MP, who starts his article saying: So, according to George Osborne, austerity is p...
The City State of London? It’s the new separatist movement that a recovery will create 27 Aug 2013 | 11:37 am
As the FT notes this morning: It is fashionable these days to portray London as a nascent city-state, a world city pulling away in wealth and status from the rest of its benighted country – “a first-...
People don’t trust tax secrecy 26 Aug 2013 | 10:16 pm
Christian Aid issued the following press release today: The majority of Britons (57%) believe that company owners should not be allowed to keep their identities secret, with most (57%) saying they ar...
The Electoral Commission criticises government plan to restrict freedom of speech 26 Aug 2013 | 01:08 pm
I spent some time yesterday blogging about the government’s new Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill. It is therefore good to note the Guardian picking ...
There is a politics that needs a champion – and its message is we’re entitled to Freedom from Fear 26 Aug 2013 | 12:57 pm
I have long felt that politics should bring hope. It’s why I believe in the causes I do. Equality, peace, truth and sustainability are fundamental to hope, but they are a hard sell to many. Martin Lut...
If you tolerate losing your freedom to speak will your children be next? 25 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
Wikipedia says of this song: “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” is a single by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 24 August 1998. The song’s theme ...
Dear Chloe Smith, Why are you taking away the right to free speech my grandfather died for? 25 Aug 2013 | 05:58 pm
I have written today about the enormous threat to free speech that the government is intending to rush through Parliament in early September in the form of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Camp...
Your right to free speech is about to be taken away. You need to act, now 25 Aug 2013 | 05:49 pm
I admit to being a little surprised by how little publicity has been given by many in civil society to the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill. This Bi...
Is the party over? Have we lost any real chance of democratic choice? 25 Aug 2013 | 12:59 pm
Andrew Rawnsley seeks to present an argument on coalition government in the Observer this morning. I confess I see something else in what he has written. It seems to me he is saying that choice is ove...
The UK is undermining the freedom of the press – and we should all be very worried 25 Aug 2013 | 11:58 am
The following open letter to David Cameron is in the Observer this morning. Its message – that the UK is undermining the freedom of the press which is the foundation of democracy – is sufficiently im...
