Pictures from Today’s Student Protests
Following the massive “Demolition” protest in London two weeks ago, today is a day of student action. From protests to occupations, we’re carrying images from around the country. The Protest Gathers in Edinburgh by Ali Thompson: The Sit-in in Cambridge by Paul Sagar: “They’ve Taken Our Educational Maintenance Allowance” by Adam Ramsay: Universities and Colleges [...]
A Generation at the End of its Tether Fights Back.
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The Closing of the Net
Photo by Wysz via flickr The internet is a giant, sprawling exercise in democratic media. If you’ve got a connection, you have access to a greater store of human knowledge than a librarian at Alexandria could have dreamt of. Whether you’re looking for Wittgenstein’s philosophy, a moon-landing conspiracy theory or The Polyphonic Spree, you can [...]
What if the cuts work?
OK, I know it sounds like a silly question – the cuts won’t work. We all know that. You don’t solve a deficit created by unemployment by cutting jobs. Etc. But, let’s look at this as a hypothetical question. And it is a reasonable one. With ongoing speculation that there will be another round of [...]
On Coalition, Compromise, and Cable
So, Vince Cable has ruffled a few feathers by claiming that the Lib Dems have not gone back on a promise on fees. Given that every simple MP signed a specific pledge to vote agaist a rise in fees, this seems a little odd. His argument, put simply, is that the Lib Dems didn’t win [...]
Why IDS gives me IBS
It costs a lot of money to run Britain. We have universal healthcare. We have a schools system that offers free education to the age of 18. We have an extensive public transport network, a military that still aims to maintain a global reach and a welfare state founded on the notion of providing security [...]
On charity, solidarity & NGOs
Part of our ongoing series on ‘how the left has lost‘. The last 25 years has seen a transformation of the architecture of the left which has been matched only by the speed of our decline. In the summer of 1985 (the summer I was born), 2 things happened. The National Union of Miners finally [...]
The Freedom Bill must restore the right to campaign
By Jim Cranshaw, who works for People & Planet this piece was first posted at Open Democracy and we’ve been ask to re-publish. It is commonly accepted that a basic tenet of democratic society is the ability of its citizens hold those in power to account. Many people’s first engagement with doing so will be [...]
Legal Aid cuts will wreck lives and increase inequality
By Pete Speller The Tory spending cuts are based on ideology, not sound economics. This is becoming more and more clear as the scope of the cuts are revealed. Recent revelations in the Tories’ plans to increase the tuition fee cap to £9000 per year will block hundreds of thousands of potential students from attending [...]
I Thought Things Were Already Bad….
photo by bob the lomond via flickr The title to this blogpost comes from a member of the public who lives in the East End of Glasgow. Its taken from the Herald, some time ago, and I don’t think I’ve seen anything else written that sums up how I feel about the situation our country [...]
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