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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...
Although the sun is shining, August 2020 will be a dark month for millions of people as companies start to realistically look at their businesses and...
Last week, grime artist Wiley sent Twitter into meltdown with his racist and anti-Semitic rants. They were outrageous and disgusting, but not...
The spiral towers of Oxford; the punting at Cambridge; cutting-edge inner-city campuses; on the face of it there is still a certain appeal to British...
I don’t buy into the right-wing argument that black and brown people and migrants are currently most at risk from Covid-19 because of their own...
Boris Johnson’s ‘Build Build Build’ plan won’t help the UK’s working class survive the impending financial Armageddon. A revolutionary New...
Recent reports are showing a rise in women applying for jobs that not so long ago were considered “masculine” work. Some might argue that new...
I remember my first day at University. I was 31 and had gone to Nottingham University, part of the so-called elite Russell Group, from an access...
In the space of just two weeks, we have moved from the horror of watching a black man publicly murdered by the state in the form of white police...
Lucy Parsons, born in Texas in 1851, was a working-class activist revolutionary and anarchist, whose heritage was African American, native American...
Recently there have been growing calls in Britain for rent strikes, not least from Labour MPs and supporters, to combat the problem of people being...
As we take our first baby steps out of lockdown, I feel more apprehensive and fearful now than I did eight weeks ago. Back then, the message was clear...
If anyone was in any doubt that the class war is still raging and that class in the UK is still the base determinate of all social inequalities, then...
“Things cannot go well in England, nor ever will, until all goods are held in common, and until there will be neither serfs nor gentlemen, and we...
Many of us are now looking out to the future – and when I say that I mean the next few weeks and months. I’ll be honest: I’m not hopeful. In...
The Covid-19 crisis is shedding new light on class relationships in a number of ways, not least in how the UK government has defined its financial...
While the world is on lockdown and most of us are happy to stay indoors to save the NHS, an army of working-class people goes out every day to keep...