Society & Culture
Günter Grass and the German neurosis
19 Apr 2012
Maciej Zurowski looks at a literary scandal and the bourgeoisie's attempt to cope with its past
Silence on the alternative
13 Jul 2023
Crimes, prejudice and sheer incompetence give added weight to the traditional republican slogan of a people’s militia, argues Mike Macnair. So why is the left so reluctant to make the call?
A man much misunderstood
06 Jul 2023
He helped develop the labour theory of value, he influenced Marx and he never worshipped greed. Despite that he is lauded by the ‘small state’, ‘let the market rule’ right. Michael Roberts assesses Adam Smith
Enemies of the people
06 Jul 2023
Kevin Bean asks why delays, objections and challenges to the Illegal Migration Bill are far from unwelcome to the Tories
Back on the picket line
29 Jun 2023
The pay battle in the NHS is a mixed picture, but, when it comes to doctors, there can be no denying the determination to fight, writes Richard Galen
Veiled lessons
29 Jun 2023
Yassamine Mather spoke to Anne McShane at a Hands Off the People of Iran meeting. Given the recent wave of arrests in Iran and new legislation reinforcing the wearing of the hijab, the experience of the Soviet Union’s Zhenotdel in the 1920s is of particular relevance.
Adriana and Titan
29 Jun 2023
Instinct takes bourgeois journalism down tracks already laid a million times before. Paul Demarty contrasts the treatment given to two different maritime disasters
Cost of Fortress Europe
22 Jun 2023
Those who horrifically drowned off the Greek coast were fleeing intolerable conditions. Eddie Ford argues for free movement, citizenship rights and effective trade unions
Not all in the mind
15 Jun 2023
There is likely to be an acute crisis when the Met police stop responding to mental health calls. Ian Spencer takes us from Bethlem to Huntercombe via Enoch Powell
Death and the cabin
15 Jun 2023
Paul Demarty considers the life and death of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. There are lessons for Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and all who despair of majoritarian politics
Knavery and folly
08 Jun 2023
Mike Macnair considers the latest stage in the Tory culture-war campaign for freedom of (only) Conservative speech
Patterns, prejudices and interests
25 May 2023
It can be fun to discover the limits of chatbots, says Yassamine Mather, but democratic control is vital. AI will be used as a weapon in the class war
Cancelling the dead
25 May 2023
Eric Gill’s Prospero and Ariel has been vandalised yet again. Mike Macnair looks at the politics of attacking soft targets
Heirs of Edmund Burke
25 May 2023
For all its incoherence, the National Conservatism conference in London is indicative of a worrying direction of travel for the global right, argues Paul Demarty
Disenchanted with the west
18 May 2023
Yassamine Mather gives her impressions of Turkey after 20 years of AKP rule and the evident failure of secularism from above
A tale of two liars
18 May 2023
Despite the court judgment over defamation and sexual assault, he has come roaring back with a triumphant CNN ‘town hall’ performance. But, argues Daniel Lazare, the liberal bourgeois media is no more reliable than Trump’s fact-free claims