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If we take the death of an elderly man, husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather out of the equation, it is clear that the latest royal...
I think we’re all aware of the strange times we’re living in. But sometimes you read a story that completely blindsides you, that makes you ask...
Enoch Powell, the divisive right-wing Conservative MP famous for his Rivers of Blood speech, once said that all political careers end in failure. And...
The Conservative Party is at it again, launching a pre-emptive strike by introducing draconian laws that will try to prevent people coming out on to...
The Metropolitan Police are flapping around like drowning men in quicksand following the awful death of Sarah Everard and the news that a serving...
There’s a sense of some relief in the UK that the Covid-19 year of lockdowns, illness and industrial-scale death tolls that have seen our health...
Cards on the table, I am an advocate of free speech and I don’t buy the recent rhetoric from sections of the left that the new public and political...
The list was expanded after scientists at Oxford University developed an algorithm to assess people’s risk of severe disease or death based on their...
I grew up surrounded by miners, those brave men who sacrificed their health – and, far too often, their limbs and their lives – to work below...
We need to talk about Keir Starmer, the latest incarnation of the ever-present middle-class white man – this one is even a knight of the realm –...
In Britain, the high streets have been on unstable ground for a long time, as local councils have seen city centres as cash cows, upping parking...
Karl Marx wrote in 1848, “The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It...
Whenever Home Secretary Priti Patel is wheeled out to lead the daily government briefing we know we have done something wrong and something rotten is...
Research, evidence and data are coming in thick and fast now showing the strife plaguing these forgotten working class communities. A year and a...
It seems the rich are even richer than we thought. Just in time for them, the lucky dears. For the rest of us, as we look into 2021, we’re staring...
I watched the astonishing breaking news from Washington yesterday like billions all over the world, our mouths agape, as the citadel of Western...
Whenever I have visited my doctor’s surgery to pick up a prescription over the past few months, I have walked past a one-man protest. He occupies...
As a teenager growing up in the Thatcher years in a working class coal mining community, I saw poverty and hopelessness everywhere – kids leaving...
Only a few more teaching days are left of this term, and as a lecturer with 10 years of experience at a British university, I can honestly say this...
There has been deep civil unrest over the weekend as citizens refuse to accept the creeping authoritarianism eating into their freedom and civil...
I voted in my first general election in 1987. I went with my mum, who was so very proud that we could walk to the booth together, mother and daughter...
For me, life never gets better than having a beer in a pub with a large group of friends, all shouting to be heard above the jukebox and the other...
I’m sure Britain’s government had hoped that the ongoing debate about free meals for children, following a high-profile campaign by footballer...
In Nottingham, where I live, people are angry and upset by the recent restrictions that have seen the city and the surrounding county placed into tier...
It seems the old divisions of North and South are creeping back into our public consciousness. These divides are ancient and etched deeply into the...
The moralising rhetoric of our betters has always been with us if you are working class in Britain. The Poor Law of 1834 laid down that narrative,...
Last week, a report was submitted to the Commons Education Select Committee on how the poorest children in the UK are being severely disadvantaged by...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is finally making noise about the astronomical rent that citizens are forced to pay for the privilege of living in Britain’s...
The story that came out of Durham University this week, where I work as a lecturer in sociology, was as depressing as it was predictable. A group of...
There are always signs when a society’s social and economic structure is weakening and coming to an end. The Roman Empire faltered because its...
As summer comes to an end, so does the Government’s furlough scheme and the storm clouds are gathering over the United Kingdom. What comes next will...
Last weekend, the sun came out and so did the cranks from Extinction Rebellion, bringing attention to the plight of indigenous people in Brazil, who...