With evictions, homelessness, and deportations on the rise while social services face cut after cut, women are paying the price for a decade of austerity policies in the United Kingdom. But not all of them are taking it lying down.
June 24 On June 23 the UK voted to leave the European Union after thirty years of a halting, sometimes noble, often messy experiment in international cooperation. In my circles—professional, well-educated, Cambridge and London—the principal reaction was incredulity. How could …
How one bad metaphor leads our economic thinking astray.
From the National Front to UKIP, the British far right has a long history of linking social and economic grievances to immigration, while Conservatives play along. The left’s job is to unpick this connection.
Huge swathes of England outside of London voted to Leave the European Union, because of a feeling of exclusion that has been growing since Thatcher’s 1980s.
In casting its lot with the undemocratic European Union, the British left is making a profound mistake.
Crazed free-marketeers and unashamed racists have brought the UK to the brink of leaving Europe. Despite the EU’s neoliberal character, only a Remain vote will allow us to take responsibility for the future political direction of a continent that we cannot escape.
