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
Squeezing the poor
31 Mar 2022
The chancellor’s spring statement means increasing numbers will have to choose between eating or heating, writes Eddie Ford
Putin to the rescue
24 Mar 2022
Ukraine has saved Boris Johnson’s bacon and he knows it, writes Eddie Ford
Westminster is main culprit
17 Mar 2022
Anne McShane is appalled by the systemic institutional abuse that took place in the children’s homes of Northern Ireland over decades. But why has the UK government been let off the hook?
Spineless of the little blob
10 Mar 2022
Its response to the Ukraine war shows the official Labour ‘left’ is sinking ever further into the mire, writes James Harvey
Our sort of refugees?
03 Mar 2022
The Ukraine crisis sharply highlights the communist demand for open borders, writes Eddie Ford
Downfall of a company woman
17 Feb 2022
Cressida Dick’s departure will not lead to meaningful reform. Paul Demarty insists that the police force needs to be replaced by a well-drilled popular militia
Destroyed by economygate?
10 Feb 2022
After the “longest wage squeeze in 200 years”, workers in Britain face an unprecedented fall in living standards. Michael Roberts rejects the Bank of England’s call to “moderate” wage rises
Remembering and forgetting
03 Feb 2022
James Harvey surveys the Bloody Sunday commemorations, speeches, articles and the left’s none too glorious record
Spin, traps and rights
27 Jan 2022
Left responses to Raab’s proposals - in so far as they exist - have simply been to defend the 1998 Human Rights Act and the European Convention. A bad idea. Mike Macnair proposes a real Bill of Rights instead
Sheer unadulterated murder
27 Jan 2022
Kevin Bean looks back to the events of Bloody Sunday and blames the killings not merely on individual members of the paratroop regiment but those sitting round the cabinet table in Downing Street
No change of line
20 Jan 2022
Mike Macnair responds to Daniel Lazare on BDS, the Israel Jewish working class and the necessity of opposing the witch-hunt
Operation Save Big Dog
20 Jan 2022
Is Boris Johnson toast? Eddie Ford comments on the partygate scandals and what it means for Sir Keir’s prospects
Three cheers for juries
13 Jan 2022
With attorney general Suella Braverman threatening to use extraordinary measures and a deafening silence coming from Labour’s front bench, Paul Demarty unhesitatingly welcomes the acquittal of the Colston Four
Creating a carnival of reaction
06 Jan 2022
James Harvey looks at how and why the island of Ireland was partitioned one hundred years ago
Fun and punishment
16 Dec 2021
Crazily, the government wants to intensify the cruel and unwinnable ‘war on drugs’. Eddie Ford, on the other hand, wants to call it off and legalise all drugs