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  • January 13, 2018
    Remembering Sivanandan: social justice activist and thinker

    Ambalavaner Sivanandan, an activist, thinker and novelist, died on 3 January 2018, aged 94.

  • March 3, 2017
    The arts and anti-establishment scoundrels

    As a direct result of Britain's decision to leave the EU, an internationally acclaimed orchestra is leaving Britain due to uncertainty as to the residency rights of its foreign play

  • November 22, 2014
    Hypocrisy at the heart of the Thornberry controversy

    Welcome to the baffling world of political priorities in 2014.

  • November 22, 2014
    Row over tweet reveals differences of understanding

    A row over a tweet shows deep differences of understanding among people in the UK. Those who live in the same society can make very different assumptions and effort can be needed to bridge the gap.

  • April 5, 2013
    Class: It's about power and wealth, not tastes in music

    This week, I completed a survey on the BBC website to discover which class I belong to. In reality, I don't have much doubt about which class I belong to, so I was really discovering more about the people who designed the survey than I was about myself.

  • September 24, 2012
    Manners and the Minister: the insolence of power

    It may appear graceless to ask the question, but how likely is it that Andrew Mitchell would have managed even the evasive partial apology heard today if he had thought he could get away with his arrogant loutishness towards officers of the Diplomatic Protection Group and retain his job?

  • January 31, 2012
    David Lammy and the smacking controversy: It's all about class

    One of the nastier stereotypes about working class people is that they hit their children. Now, however, working class people are being blamed for not hitting their children enough. Politicians and columnists who are encouraging parents to smack their children are relying on prejudice and class stereotypes.

  • October 6, 2011
    The parallel universe of David Cameron

    Welcome to the parallel universe of David Cameron. It is a world in which the Tories stand up for the poor, lead the fight against dictatorship and stop people from being given benefits on demand. It is a world that exists in a conference hall in Manchester this week, in a few daily papers the rest of the time, and in the less well-informed parts of the right-wing blogosphere. It has nothing in common with the world that most of us live in.

  • August 20, 2011
    A mansion tax and the realities of class

    Britain may be broke, but the government's desperation to cut the deficit seems to have its limits. This morning, Eric Pickles has ruled out an increase in council tax for houses valued at more than £1million. He is portraying measures that would affect only the richest as an attack on the "middle class". In reality, the government is consistent in pursuing the interests of the very wealthy at the expense of the rest of us.

  • July 27, 2010
    Health gap between rich and poor wider than in 1930s

    The health gap between the richest and poorest in Britain is now wider than it was during the great depression, according to researchers from Sheffield and Bristol Universities. The figures reflect a similar growth in economic inequality.