Crumbling Britain: How a UN lawyer exposed the true cost of austerity
Philip Alston found elements of the new Universal Credit welfare system “problematic”, “harsh” and “unnecessary”.
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Yanis Varoufakis: “The EU declared war and Theresa May played along”
The former Greek finance minister on how a bad Brexit deal became inevitable and his plan to transform Europe.
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The BBC must not reduce the Brexit crisis to a soap opera
House of Cards this is not. We have on our hands an intense political crisis which carries overarching economic ramifications for the…
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Why lingerie label Victoria’s Secret is struggling to be “woke”
When millennial women opened Instagram they were met with “feminist” influencers posting from the show, describing how “empowered” they felt.
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Commons Confidential: Red Ed plots a comeback
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Why conspiracy theories are not just a harmless joke
Conspiracy and modern anti-Semitism are deeply irrational world-views that developed in tandem and are almost impossible to disentangle.
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Arron Banks bought Brexit. But in doing so, did he also break the law?
The National Crime Agency is to investigate Banks over suspicions that he was “not the true source” of his contributions…
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The afterlife of Rosa Luxemburg: how the German Marxist’s influence endures
A hundred years after her murder, Luxemburg’s most vital insight remains that socialism and democracy are nothing without each other.
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