More From James Bloodworth
Poor millennials will be the fattest generation – the march of progress is to blame
The 10 worst areas in Britain in terms of overweight or obese children are also among the worst 10 for child poverty.
Feb 27, 2018
Britain's pathetic politicians are drowning in the blood of tortured Syria
The latest butchery in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta by Assad forces shames the isolationist United Kingdom.
Feb 22, 2018
Why British politics is being contaminated by conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories about George Soros and Oxfam reveal something disconcerting about the road down which British politics is currently travelling.
Feb 15, 2018
The gig economy is exploitation masquerading as freedom
Multi-million-pound firms are, like Uber and Deliveroo, are offloading business risk onto some of the poorest people in Britain.
Feb 07, 2018
Government knows the consequences of Brexit will be disastrous - but experts will be ignored again
Leaked paper shows Brexit is likely to damage the British economy significantly - but will it be the game-changer it is being touted as by many prominent Remainers?
Jan 30, 2018
Davos 2018: Capitalism still has much to do before it can claim victory
The global elite gathered at Davos for the World Economic Forum must heed the more sceptical accounts of unstoppable progress.
Jan 24, 2018
Why Carillion was a massive Ponzi scheme
the collapse of Carillion says a great deal about the state of Britain in the twenty-first century.
Jan 18, 2018
The Virgin Daily Mail ban isn't censorship – but it makes me uneasy
The West Coast trains move has been decried as an attack on free speech by the Daily Mail and its political allies.
Jan 10, 2018
Why have left wingers greeted the Iran protests with miserable silence
Will the left support the struggle of the Iranian people?
Jan 02, 2018
Brexit is the replacement of one set of elites with another
It is this contradiction between the rhetoric of the Brexiteers and the reality that makes the whole thing feel like such a con.
Dec 22, 2017
A 'centrist' party is the political equivalent of a tantrum
Toys are thrown out of the pram based on the notion that Jeremy Corbyn's rise to the summit of the Labour Party is some kind of coup.
Dec 15, 2017
Nationalisation won't magically solve the problems of Britain's railways
Rail fares are going up because the government is trying to shift the burden of subsidy from the state onto the passenger.
Dec 07, 2017
Don't forget Britain's bloody appeasement of Ratko Mladić and racist Serbian nationalism
Ratko Mladić, the Serb commander who presided over the murder of more than 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica in Bosnia, will die in jail.
Nov 23, 2017
Russian trolls didn't cause Brexit – but their global meddling is a real danger to democracy
Whereas once the West was responsible for everything good in the world, today it is the source of everything that is bad.
Nov 16, 2017
Why the millennials are toying with a return to socialism
Liberals would do well to examine the growing problems facing young adults in Western democracies today.
Nov 11, 2017
Those on the left who love the whiff of 'revolution' have been blindsided by Catalan separatism
The referendum of 1 October is not the referendum the Catalan people need. Nor does its result give us a clear idea of what the nation actually wants.
Nov 01, 2017
The Russian Revolution and the judgement of history
A century has passed since the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in search of 'Peace, Land and Bread'.
Oct 26, 2017
Politics isn't about being polite to Tories if they inflict suffering on people
Liberals attacked the Labour MP Laura Pidcock for saying she wouldn't be friends with a Conservative because they can't stomach the cruel reality of life for many people.
Oct 11, 2017
Theresa May's speech was awful – and not just because of the bizarre disasters
The prime minister's speech at the Conservative party conference will make headlines for its appalling performance, but the policies in there were bad too.
Oct 04, 2017
We'll all be exploited like Uber drivers unless we fight back against the 'gig economy'
The ongoing squabble about regulating the consumer side of firms like Uber is only half of the story.
Sep 27, 2017
Boris Johnson's moment has passed – he offers young people nothing and they know it
If Johnson does ever lead the Conservatives, his brand of re-heated neoliberalism will fall flat on its face.
Sep 19, 2017
Tories let homelessness rise because they believe people deserve their poverty
The Conservative government's political choices about welfare have dire consequences for the poor - and it knows it.
Sep 13, 2017
'Horseshoe theory' is nonsense – anti-fascists and neo-Nazis are not the same
Hysterical horseshoe theorists claim moral equivalence between socialism and fascism, Marx and Hitler.
Sep 05, 2017
Britain is a democracy - so why do we accept dictatorships in our workplaces?
As trade union membership has declined, executive pay has soared.
Aug 30, 2017
Segregating women on trains is what religious extremists do – it has no place in modern Britain
However well-intentioned, calls for women-only carriages stem from the same idea that blames women for male behaviour.
Aug 23, 2017
It's fine to punch Nazis – the trouble is everyone's a 'fascist' these days
How can we 'bash the fash' when everyone gets painted as the bad guy?
Aug 16, 2017
The real problem with Jeremy Corbyn's vacuous statement about violence in Venezuela
There's no moral equivalence between Maduro's authoritarian state and people fighting against it.
Aug 08, 2017
Why it's wrong to cancel the passports of British Isis fighters
The government should take responsibility for the monsters it had a hand in creating.
Aug 03, 2017
Beware the cult of Corbyn betraying everything you believe in
We have learned that the usual rules of political engagement don't apply to Saint Jez.
Jul 25, 2017
Taylor Review fudge will do nothing to prevent the gig economy's race to the bottom
Long seen as the government's "get out of jail free card", the report contains little to warm the heart.
Jul 11, 2017
Pages
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- NEXT
