Democracy & State > UK state
Referendum has nothing to offer
07 Jun 2012
Neither Scottish independence nor British unionism. Sarah McDonald looks at the launch of the "Yes" campaign
Opposing genocide is no crime
18 Dec 2025
Britain supports Israeli genocide in Gaza in deeds, if not in words. Disagreeing with that complicity risks arrest under counter-terrorism laws and a draconian prison sentence, writes Tony Greenstein
Release the hunger strikers
18 Dec 2025
Palestine Action has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation. Now it is illegal to even chant ‘From the river to the sea’ or call for a ‘global intifada’. Government ministers, says Yassamine Mather, are determined to criminalise the entire solidarity movement
Return of gutter racism
11 Dec 2025
Nigel Farage will no doubt survive accusations of boyhood racism. This highlights the drift of politics to the right, argues Paul Demarty - and the total failure of liberal anti-racism
Twilight of the Beeb
20 Nov 2025
The current crisis of the BBC is the outcome of long-term transformation of the wider British establishment, and its total subordination to the USA, argues Paul Demarty
Was always time to talk about a republic
06 Nov 2025
Scandal alone is not enough to do away with the House of Windsor. We need determined political activity to put an end to the monarchy and establish the democratic republic, argues Paul Demarty
Not just one rotten apple
30 Oct 2025
Disgraced Prince Andrew’s antics are bad enough - the real scandal is the continued existence of the monarchy. Roll on the red republic, says Paul Demarty
Rightwing bidding war
09 Oct 2025
Kemi Badenoch promises a UK version of America’s ICE, part of a desperate attempt to stem Tory support haemorrhaging to Reform. Not only does this threaten mass deportations, whole areas would be subject to a reign of terror, says Eddie Ford
Uses and abuses of murder
09 Oct 2025
As Israel’s popularity in the west craters, Sir Keir Starmer and the entire establishment cynically use the attack on Manchester synagogue to abuse and further criminalise protest against genocide, argues Paul Demarty
Republicanism and the split
02 Oct 2025
It is not yet possible to assess whether Corbyn or Sultana are champions of the UK’s social monarchy or the English social republic, says Steve Freeman. Choosing between them is not a matter of age or experience, but politics
All the king’s men
25 Sep 2025
Behind all the talk of the ‘special relationship’, there is radical subordination. What about Trump, the man? Not only was his already huge ego fed, flattered and further inflated: there are the mid-terms and maybe even a third term, writes Eddie Ford
Endless embarrassments
18 Sep 2025
Angela Rayner, Peter Mandelson and Boris Johnson are not isolated cases. We live under a regime of institutional corruption. Mike Macnair looks for the roots of successive scandals
We will not be silenced
11 Sep 2025
Both the 30th national demonstration against the genocide in Gaza and the protest against the proscription of Palestine Action were peaceful and disciplined, writes Ian Spencer, yet the police arrested 890 people under terrorism legislation
Tony Blair and the banality of evil
10 Jul 2025
BCG and the Tony Blair Institute have modelled plans for Israel to relocate Palestinians out of Gaza, a second Nakba, a war crime, for which all involved ought to be publicly tried and, if found guilty, suitably punished, says Eddie Ford
Carnival of the oppressed
26 Jun 2025
Midsummer day’s 350,000-strong Palestine demonstration in London was a defiant, disciplined protest against genocide, war and an increasingly repressive British state, writes Ian Spencer
Breaking the mould?
08 May 2025
Last week saw major gains for Reform UK - but is Nigel Farage’s outfit about to replace the Tories? They have, after all, been in perpetual chaos for years. Paul Demarty is sceptical