How pseudo-democracy fools us all
Freethinking with Rob Marchant Democracy, as even that oft-pessimistic Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm, noted in his rather good…
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Britain convulses, but Europe burns
Freethinking with Rob Marchant We cannot ignore the weighty events going on around the Murdoch empire, which are…
Our tolerance of extremism will do for us
Freethinking with Rob Marchant Let me tell you about Raed Salah. Or, rather, let him tell you about…
Cuts, pensions and the wrong side of the argument
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant As you read this, union leaders are meeting and discussing, moving seemingly inexorably…
An end to banker-bashing, please
Freethinking with Rob Marchant Ok, I am going to make a confession now which will probably damn me…
UCU and the siren call of “my enemy’s enemy”
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant Hate figures and bogeymen are convenient for everyone. Up to a point, they…
Labour’s poll lead: soft or hard?
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant Steel yourselves. Labour has had a single-figure lead in the polls for a…
Lib Dems: Readiness to govern, 101
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant For the nth time in the last few days, the Lib Dems have…
New Labour is dead. New Britain? Still worth fighting for
Free Thinking with Rob Marchant After the weekend’s national outpouring of sentiment, I want to take you back…
An open letter to TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber
Free Thinking with Rob Marchant Dear Brendan, I am proud of much of the work that the union…
