02 January, 2012 // Category: Foreign policy, Law, Media
Even if you didn’t know much about it, you might consider the head of the official Government inspectorate of prisons an unlikely source for reactionary, authoritarian rhetoric about the UK’s “cushy” and “comfortable” prisons. You’d probably find it still more unlikely if you knew anything about...
17 September, 2011 // Category: Law, Racism
On Monday 8th August, in South London, three hundred young people gathered outside Battersea’s Lavender Hill police station “taunting” the police to come out. In Nottingham, three police stations were attacked including Canning Circus police station, which was firebombed. The Pembury Estate in...
09 August, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International, Law, Terror/War
Joshua E.S. Phillips is an American investigative journalist who has reported from much of Southern Asia as well as the Middle East. He has written for the Washington Post, Newsweek and The Nation, amongst others, and has broadcast radio features on the BBC and NPR. In 2006 he began investigating...
11 July, 2011 // Category: Culture, Employment & Welfare, Law, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Owen Jones is a union lobbyist turned political commentator. He has written for a wide range of publications and has been prominent on television and radio since the publication of his new book, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Verso, June 2011). Recently he caught up with Sam Grove to...
04 July, 2011 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Law
The traditional view that the Tories are the party of the landed classes was built on solid bedrock. More recent events show that it continues to hold good. The last time they were in power they orchestrated the largest land-grab in living memory – the ‘right to buy’ – through which council...
16 May, 2011 // Category: Gender equality, Law, Media
For the past three weeks, the media has been swamped with tales of superinjunctions. The press claim superinjunctions curtail freedom of speech, while celebrities and their lawyers argue that they are necessary to protect individual privacy. In my view, the claim to privacy is inconsistent. If it...
03 April, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International, Law
Michael Mandel is Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. Amongst his published works is How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage And Crimes Against Humanity (Pluto Press, 2004). In this exchange with Thomas Kollmann he discusses legal and...
09 February, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, International, Law, Politics
Nicholas Shaxson is a British journalist and Associate Fellow of Chatham House. His most recent book, Treasure Islands, is a highly readable and often shocking account of the murky world of offshore finance. The book provides serious intellectual ammunition to the growing campaigns in Britain and...
31 January, 2011 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Law, Politics
At 1pm yesterday, I and around ten others walked to Boots, 361 Oxford Street, to occupy it in protest against its tax avoidance: the usual UK Uncut high jinks, in other words. I’ve only been living in London for three weeks, and after passing the Liverpool Uncut baton onto some wonderful people,...
17 August, 2010 // Category: Law, Media
The ability of dominant elites to exploit crises and configure them in ways appropriate to their narrow interests is a capitalist staple. The economic crisis was articulated as a stock market crisis meriting a massive transfer of wealth to the financial class. Equally when the elites refer to...
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