Mark Steel There must be millions who managed to forget about Tony Blair for the last two years, and now this dreadful man might be ruling us again?
November 2, 2009 For some reason, it seems like the idea of "shared sacrifice" only applies to one side in society's divide between rich and poor.
October 21, 2009 Britain's Gordon Brown could learn from the Iranian government that there's a simple way to ensure the U.S. will never ignore him again.
October 7, 2009 The best opposition to racism comes when communities refuse to be intimidated--like when 2,000 people turned out to block the far right from marching on a mosque.
September 21, 2009 The number of Polish immigrants in Britain is falling, but that hasn't made a dent in prejudice against Poles.
September 11, 2009 With the British Open Golf Championship starting, the question is: Why is a splendid game allowed to be ruined by stuck-up, suburban snobs?
July 16, 2009 After six years and a million dead, Iraq is finally back to the level of violence that existed before the invasion happened.
June 23, 2009 Britain's Labour Party is in its worst state in a century, and all it took for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to save himself was promising he would "learn to listen."
June 15, 2009 The Labour Party is coming out worst in the scandal over MP's expenses because they've pushed the idea that class is no longer an issue.
June 1, 2009 Can there ever have been a time when so many people were so furious with the members of Britain's parliament?
May 26, 2009 A scandal over the expense claims of British politicians exposes just how hypocritical the ruling class really is.
May 20, 2009 Conservatives in Britain are up in arms over a proposed tax increase, complaining it will drive the wealthy out the country and hurt the poor.
May 13, 2009 It's not the violence of the police that gives away their true nature, but their compulsive Bart Simpson-style lying.
May 4, 2009 People like Bernie Madoff don't seem to realize the rules have changed and now their arrogance and greed attracts contempt.
April 7, 2009 A British opinion poll asked if services privatized over the last 25 years should be returned to public ownership. Two-thirds of people said yes.
March 31, 2009 Even Marx himself is in vogue, his analysis of booms and slumps the subject of stories in the business section of newspapers.
March 9, 2009 Some middle-aged radicals lament that today's students "don't demonstrate like we did"--but they're being proven wrong by a new wave of protests.
February 24, 2009 New Labour urged and encouraged every one of the practices that caused the financial crisis--and now they want a review to see how it happened.
February 16, 2009 By refusing to broadcast an appeal for Gaza, the BBC decided to be biased not toward the impoverished, but toward the impoverishers.
January 30, 2009 Will the UN ceasefire in Gaza stop the flow of arms to the terrorists? Because Israel is getting its planes and tanks and missiles from somewhere.
January 23, 2009 Two hundred years after Darwin’s birth, furious Christians still despise his theories and try to prove the Bible is more reliable.
January 14, 2009 U.S. and Israeli officials have twisted and distorted the facts beyond all recognition to justify the war on Gaza.
January 5, 2009 He thought he'd be welcomed as a liberator, but Bush is despised to the point where a man throwing shoes at him is an instant national hero.
December 19, 2008 No matter how far society moves from the "traditional" family, some people still seem determined to impose it on all history.
November 20, 2008 Now that Barack Obama has won, Republican leaders claim to be reveling in "this great and truly memorable moment."
November 14, 2008
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