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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Why have left wingers greeted the Iran protests with miserable silence
Will the left support the struggle of the Iranian people?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
Britain is a democracy - so why do we accept dictatorships in our workplaces?
As trade union membership has declined, executive pay has soared.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
