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Why Jews are proud to be Spurs fans 21 Nov 2012 | 09:33 pm
Are Spurs fan's chants of 'Yid army" anti-semitic, as the Society of Black Lawyers have claimed, or this is a case of appropriating terminology as a means of nullifying it? Gosh, I am amazed as a lon...
November 15th 2012 - a slap in the face for politics 21 Nov 2012 | 08:11 pm
Police chief elections - what are we to make of the dismal turnout? The November 2012 elections were meant to go down in history as the start of a brave new era of direct democracy. They will go down...
Fighting for the Public University 20 Nov 2012 | 05:47 pm
Unless we act against education privatisation it will set in and be difficult to reverse. It’s unrolling nationally, and local responses need to operate in a way which engages with this. We shouldn’t ...
Wait! Leveson must delay his report on the UK press 20 Nov 2012 | 04:58 pm
Lord Leveson's public inquiry into UK press standards is about to report. But the unfolding crisis shaking the BBC will muddy the waters. This is a call for delay. This is a plea to Lord Leveson not ...
Tragedies of the fourth estate 20 Nov 2012 | 04:07 pm
The recent crises must be understood in light of systemic pressures on the BBC's resources and the wider struggle to maintain healthy and well funded investigative journalism - an essential part of d...
The British betrayal: some inconvenient truths about children’s health services 20 Nov 2012 | 05:06 am
Leading politicians and health professionals meet in London tomorrow to discuss the future of child health in the UK. Ahead of the Westminster Health Forum seminar — ‘Improving children’s and young pe...
Votes for British prisoners: now is the time 19 Nov 2012 | 07:18 pm
The UK needs to bring forward plans to enfranchise prisoners by Thursday. The dilemma regarding the enfranchisement of prisoners is becoming a constitutional issue. There are two opposing moral posi...
The Coming Dictatorship of Britain 18 Nov 2012 | 06:09 pm
The UK's coalition government of Tories and Lib Dems is about to push through legislation creating secret courts that will protect the State at the whim of Ministers and the Sectet Services. It is an ...
A light skirmish over British Army E-book: literary critics in the cyber age 16 Nov 2012 | 04:00 pm
When hostile reviews are orchestrated. The new role of the ‘literary critic’ in the cyber age is an evolving mystery. On Amazon Kindle Store, and other E-book purveyor-sites, people are invited to po...
Politics as theory and politics as practice 16 Nov 2012 | 03:48 pm
In 1962, the late Professor Sir Bernard Crick published his seminal work In Defence of Politics. Fifty years on, formal political processes have never been in greater need of defending. In this articl...
