Democracy
Better government needs people, not politicians, at the centre
Britons need better government, argues Steve Reed MP. And only the politics of empowerment can bring this about.
But isn’t Owen Jones a part of the establishment?
Reviewing Owen Jones' new book, The Establishment, Carl Packman finds that what changes the British Establishment of today is merely the means with which they contain dissent
Restricting strike action is Thatcherite nostalgia – it must be stopped
The Conservatives are planning to make strikes so restrictive they cross the boundary into an attack on fundamental civil liberties. We must stand up to them
The nonsense of shareholder ownership: what we should know
Neoliberals claim that shareholders are the owners of companies. This is nonsense, argues Austin Mitchell MP and Prem Sikka, Professor of Accounting, University of Essex
Accepting Carswell with open arms is actually a massive risk for UKIP
It has gone unnoticed, but accepting a genuine libertarian who disregards party loyalists is actually a really bad move for UKIP
Hollande is lost: the Left should speak against the German right’s obsessions
The rift in the French government speaks more broadly to what the left-wing narrative should sound like on the austerity obsessions of Germany and the European Union