Mark Steel With only a few weeks to go before the Olympics, we're at the point where we're told it's almost illegal to not be excited.
May 24, 2012 The logic applied to the privatization of Britain's National Health Service should be extended to other areas of life.
May 1, 2012 Now we know why Britain's public-sector unions held a general strike on November 29--because they hate mothers.
December 13, 2011 The mistake population pessimists make is seeing people solely as consumers, while forgetting most of us can also produce.
November 21, 2011 Every few months, just when you think the ex-prime minister has slid into history, he gets paid a million pounds for something.
October 10, 2011 What if we applied the same rules for punishing bankers that the courts are using on those arrested during Britain's riots?
September 19, 2011 All the people calling for crackdowns following the riots in Britain thought that all along--but they're getting a hearing now.
August 29, 2011 Britain's politicians are all disgusted about "mindless criminality"--but the truth is they don't understand the first thing about the rebellion.
August 17, 2011 Cuts have to be made, the politicians say. So, let's start by cutting firms whose only purpose seems to be using tax dollars to persecute the disabled.
August 3, 2011 As the News of the World scandal unfolds, more crooks are being exposed--from media moguls to government officials.
July 26, 2011 Suddenly, politicians who spent their careers prostrate before media baron Rupert Murdoch are "shocked" at how dreadful the revelations are.
July 18, 2011 When British public-sector workers announced their June 30 strike, parents were asked to do the teaching themselves.
July 11, 2011 You might as well say we can't enjoy the luxury of a sewage system since we're flushing 35 percent more than in 1996.
July 6, 2011 When the International Monetary Fund says a policy will "work," they mean work for their sort--bankers and bosses.
June 15, 2011 With many people now living longer, British insurers think it's high time that workers start paying toward their old age.
June 8, 2011 Almost every paper and magazine is covered in it, the pubs are full of flags, and every news report has to mention it.
April 19, 2011 Hundreds of columns have been written condemning the "violence" of a London demonstration that caused children to cry.
April 13, 2011 In any mass revolt, huge numbers of people who gave little indication that they had any interest in "politics" are transformed.
February 14, 2011 Finally, someone has come to the defense of one of the most oppressed sections of society--the banking community.
January 20, 2011 Prime Minister David Cameron said during the campaign that he wouldn't increase the value-added tax--which is precisely what he's just done.
January 11, 2011 Students taking part in the London protests say they've learned as much in the last month as in the rest of their course in school.
December 16, 2010 You can tell the British students protesting fee increases are having an impact because everyone dismisses them as "middle class."
December 8, 2010 The Tea Partiers accuse Obama of anything they think of, no matter how illogical or disgusting. But that's only part of Obama's problems.
November 9, 2010 The Liberal Democrats--junior partners to the Tories in Britain's government--are abandoning all their election promises.
October 26, 2010 Despite a strike vote with 79 percent in favor, the mayor of London wants to block a transport strike by declaring the vote unfair.
October 12, 2010
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