Rail Renationalisation: Edinburgh meeting with Christian Wolmar
While I was first becoming interested in a serious way in politics there were lots of interesting things happening. I was very interested in the peace process in the north…
Caroline Lucas’ bill to renationalise the railways published today
Green MP Caroline Lucas will table a private member's bill later today, in a bid to reverse the disastrous privatisation of the railways and bring the network back into public…
Making the case for higher taxation
Last Thursday’s local elections covered all 27 of the English counties, in eight unitary authorities and one Welsh authority, as well as two mayoral elections in Doncaster and North Tyneside.…
Osborne’s wrong but we need to consider a Scottish currency
George Osborne is in Glasgow today to lecture us on how independence would be a bad idea. This is, he argues, because the rest of the UK wouldn’t allow Scotland…
The one kind of immigration that's not so great
I spend a lot of my life arguing that immigration isn't an economic problem. Immigrants don't steal our jobs – with every pair of hands comes a mouth. The stuff…
The academic case for austerity crumbles… but it won't change anything
So, it turns out that one of the main academic papers used to justify the government's massive cuts is wrong. I mean, not in the 'some academics think it's wrong,…
UK Uncut stages bedroom tax protests at Lord Freud and Iain Duncan Smith’s million pound mansions
Hundreds of people are protesting over the bedroom tax and benefits cap at Lord Freud’s £ home and 20 disabled activists are staging a protest at Iain Duncan Smith’s country…
Today is a mighty achievement for Cameron and Osborne
Beware a young man with something to prove. That, surely, must be the lesson of today. As the next round of the government's assault on the people of Britain comes…
UK Uncut plan to ‘evict a millionaire’ over Bedroom Tax
The anti-cuts direct action pioneers UK Uncut have announced that their next action will be a day of "mass civil disobedience" on Saturday 13 April. Their focus will be the…
An aspiration nation
An aspiration nation. That’s how George Osborne described the UK in his fourth budget. A budget that brings some fortune to big business, home owners and tax avoiders but gives…