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How politics became the preserve of the wealthy

  • 02 April 2007
  • 1 comment

Two decades on, we can see the poll tax protests as the last great popular uprising - the last occasion when Britain's dispossessed spoke with political force

Carbon rationing: a modern morality tale

  • 26 March 2007
  • 3 comments

Controlling climate change will require personal sacrifice, fairness and trust. Yet successive governments have insisted on the individual's right to choose. This large bird is coming home to roost

What you call a school is academic

  • 05 March 2007
  • 3 comments

City academies are remarkably similar to the city technology colleges the Tories launched in the 1980s. I have never understood their point

Persuasion is a science

  • 26 February 2007

There's a proven formula for getting people to do what you want them to do - and politicians would be well advised to learn it

A corrupt system that affects us all

  • 19 February 2007
  • 12 comments

I am not suggesting your council will accept a bribe to nod through your rear extension...

Capitalism's dirty business

  • 12 February 2007

We need to know about private equity: it sacks staff, cuts wages, sells off assets, outsources, screws suppliers and, more often than not, reduces services to customers

Why skills don't matter any more

  • 05 February 2007
  • 1 comment

British companies look not for people who are proficient at specific jobs but for those who have "potential" to cope with change. Is it any wonder nothing works properly?

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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Will China rule the world?

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