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  • May 30, 2019
    Universal Credit, advertorials, and the BBC

    In 2011, the BBC made a documentary The Future State of Welfare, presented by John Humphrys.

  • October 27, 2016
    Toby Young and I Daniel Blake, continued

    I recently wrote a response to Toby Young’s review of the film I, Daniel Blake. In it Mr.

  • December 16, 2013
    Anti-Roma prejudice and an unlikely prediction

    Come January, the right-wing media in the UK might have some explaining to do. The Daily Mail (and their friends in UKIP and the Conservative right) have been telling us that Britain will be flooded by immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria, as the last restrictions on their immigration to the UK are lifted.

  • October 4, 2013
    The Chartists, civic vandalism, and destruction of our radical history

    This blog post started as a report on the campaign to save Newport’s Chartist mural. But before I finished writing, Newport Council moved in and started destroying this remarkable piece of public art.

  • October 3, 2013
    I love Britain. The Daily Mail hates it

    What is Britain? This question doesn't seem to have been asked much in the many arguments around the Daily Mail's vicious attack on Ed Miliband's father. Ralph Miliband, the Mail maintains, "hated Britain".

  • April 8, 2013
    The Daily Mail want me to feel insulted. I don't.

    According to theDaily Mail today (8 April), I should be feeling insulted. "What an insult to Christians!" declares its front page.

  • June 6, 2012
    Daily Mail criticises Rowan Williams' Diamond Jubilee sermon

    The Daily Mail has criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury for comments on "ludicrous financial greed" and "environmental recklessness" in his Diamond Jubilee sermon.

  • January 16, 2012
    A fresh propaganda offensive against disabled rights

    With the government still apparently willing to make sick, disabled and vulnerable people pay for a financial slump brought about by greed, de-regulation and speculation, the press-mediated propaganda assault has begun ahead of the next House of Lords debate on welfare reform (17 January).

  • September 27, 2011
    The reality of BAE's job cuts

    I don’t claim to be an expert at making political predictions. Some of my predictions have been woefully off-course. But yesterday (26 September) I made what must surely be the most precise political prediction of my life.

  • August 12, 2011
    Rich thugs, poor thugs

    Right-wing columnists are having a field day in the wake of the riots, demonising single parents, benefit recipients and working class people generally. To be consistent in condemning looting, we should criticise not only the rioters but the wealthy bankers and politicians who are looting our society.