I have just seen this and it seems all the more relevant today. No doubt if they try it again, it will be tasered first!
The EU is developing a full spectrum dominance system of surveillance combing domestic and military, according to a new report
Gareth Young invited me to ‘The Future of England’. A debate that followed the annual general meeting of the Campaign for an English Parliament. In plucky fashion it was held
Watch Dispatches on Channel 4 this evening at 8pm. Peter Oborne presents a brave expose of the British lobby in the UK. Not that they do anything illegal, just that
Yesterday I listened to the radio adaption of David Edgar's play about 1989 The Shape of the Table. You can hear it for the coming week here on
As the left across Europe flounders in the wake of the economic crisis, the Greek socialist party under George Papandreou could prove the exception with its dramatic election victory. His aim is nothing less than a pioneering form of progressive government that combines green development, democrat
An excerpt from Anthony Barnett's Guardian commentary
Henry Porter has a brilliant, brief and revealing polemic, a must read! It's on the Kim Howell's call to turn the UK into a fortress state
Old-fashioned revolutions of the mass against the oppressors are out. History now delivers revolutionary normalisations (This article was first published on 29 October 2009)
I watched the Question Time under the heavy influence of lemon and honey so this may have effected my judgement. Here are my immediate reactions.
I was on Radio 5 Live yesterday on the Simon Mayo spot with the great John Lloyd of QI, Ian Dale and Mark Hanson from Labour List (you can hear
As a good part of the nation prepares to sit down and watch the leader of our New Fascist party on Question Time, we need to ask what the BBC is up to?
