Pressure on the BBC continues from Donald Trump and his allies in the large right-wing sector of our own media. But as the Open Britain campaign implies, this is an attack on the heart of British political culture. (See address of article:) https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#search/bbc+trump/FMfcgzQcqtkLKVPQTvwtcZPZTTdmFZMR If you had to define “British values”, the BBC would come near […]
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In this article, I cover the past, present and future of the United Nations (UN), including its achievements and failures since it was founded eighty years ago. I take a critical look at the challenges faced by the UN and the case of its most exceptional member state, the US. Finally, I talk about reforms
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The subject of raising taxes on the super-rich, having long being promoted by organisations such as Tax Justice UK and Patriotic Millionaires, has risen sharply in the public discourse in recent weeks. However the discussion has focussed (naturally, in the country’s present situation) on raising funds – ideally by a method not squeezing further the
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Why are Union Jacks and the Cross of St George being flown on bridges and roundabouts? (Picture from this Saturday’s Guardian) Why do a majority of voters think foreign immigration is the single most important political issue? Why do a majority of British voters think (wrongly) that illegal immigration is greater than the legal kind?
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Israel’s Colonies – a different perspective. This post responds to several recent articles covering the war in Gaza I invite you to read this extract from a recent Guardian article: ‘Australia’s archives contain many colonial diaries. They are how we can understand just how widespread frontier murders and massacres were; how commonplace it was
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The home page of the campaign group Tax Justice UK makes 10 proposals which they claim could raise £60 billion a year to improve Britain’s public services. They are worth a good look. Would they work? Or would all the multi-millionaires and wealth creators quit Britain? Would Donald Trump punish us for forcing extractive US
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We are all aware of the ubiquity of American products and services in our lives. But very few of us are aware of our uniqueness as an American asset in Europe. Or the extent of the US’s corporate and financial control in the UK, and how much damage this control does to our wellbeing, even
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Magnificent account of the troubled Windsors. I read this feeling deeply antagonised by the wretched UK Press’s treatment of Megan, which was worse than one could have imagined. It took weeks to read this very long book, but the experience was to be totally absorbed by it, a complete page-turner. Absolutely brilliant, extremely well written,
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The book I would like to share is by the recently deceased philosopher Bruno Latour, titled “Down to Earth: Politics in the new climatic regime”, which he wrote, in French, in 2018. I particularly like how Latour unpacks two of the major discourses of our age, to paraphrase badly, one is ‘localism’ and the ‘globalism’.
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