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Burke, Norman and Glasman - 'post-liberalism' in Britain today
At a Civitas seminar this week, Jesse Norman MP and Maurice Glasman of Blue Labour discussed Burke and his relevance to 'post-liberalism' today. Is a "new centre ground" really being carved out?Joshua...
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The Commonwealth and Sri Lanka’s disintegrating democracy
While the nation is all set to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) later this year, Sri Lankan democracy is disintegrating, with systematic torture and arbitrary detention...
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How to kill a zombie: strategizing the end of neoliberalism
An ideology which promised to liberate us from state socialist bureaucracy has instead imposed a bureaucracy all of its own. This only looks like a paradox if we take neoliberalism at its word. Why...
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Neoliberalism, child of the Keynesian state
The desire to see neoliberalism as the ’70s ruination of an earlier public consensus, is a desire to which state-backed capital is all too willing to direct us. The received wisdom of neoliberalism as...
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Neoliberal networks: a response to William Davies
The question of how these two disparate logics - network sociality and neoliberal competitive individualism - relate to each other is arguably the key issue in the analysis of contemporary power...
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Forget legitimacy: the Egyptian Army’s intervention has come at the expense...
The west needs to take a step back from the ‘coup or revolution’ debate to consider what the overthrow of Morsi means for democracy in Egypt, and remember why democracy is the best bad system. The...
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Investing in food security? On philanthrocapitalism, biotechnology and...
Africapitalism and philanthrocapitalism represent a progressive convergence of business principles with social philanthropy. But vigilance is needed to ensure long-term success amid highly...
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The burning train
Anastasiya Valeyeva describes a bullish mood aboard the train carrying opposition leader Aleksey Navalny from Moscow to Kirov yesterday. Navalny and 'accomplice' Petr Ofitserov would in the morning be...
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Frighten and be frightened
The uncompromising sentences passed down today to Aleksey Navalny and co-defendant Petr Ofitserov demonstrate that the Putin regime has crossed over to the twilight phase. The only thing it can offer...
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The neo-liberal knowledge regime, inequality and social critique
The argument about students holds that there should not be a direct public subsidy of a private beneficiary. But on the impact agenda the situation is reversed. Here the Government’s view is that...
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The double betrayal - review of NHS SOS
The left is forever being condemned for talking of ‘betrayal’. But it is our responsibility to describe accurately the lies and strategy that lie behind the dismemberment of the NHS and the blatant...
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The dangers of Reform - lobbying and the UK
Who really drives policy at Westminster, the unions or the big commercial lobbyists who appear to operate without any democratic process whatsoever, and with "charitable" status to boot?Nick Seddon,...
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Naked in the flat
Could you live without any belongings? Helsinki-based Petri Luukainen took radical action to conquer the clutter of his apartment: he got rid of all his stuff. This is the second video in our Everyday...
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A reformed role model: India, a reluctant rights promoter
A reply to Meenakshi Ganguly and Aseem Prakash. A far more instructive question they might have asked is, ‘is it in India’s interests to promote rights globally?’ - and regrettably the answer is...
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Squandering public money, BBC style
The culture of severance packages at the BBC has been exposed as so reckless with public money that there is talk of the police being brought in. Here's why.For all the BBC’s ability to enlighten and...
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Football in Turkey: A force for liberalisation and modernity?
The relationship between football and society in Turkey is unique and complex. Behind the corruption and fanaticism lies a culture that is challenging outdated social attitudes and leading Turkey's...
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Navalny steps into the ring
Alesksey Navalny was this morning unexpectedly released from custody, but he will be back in prison within a few weeks, says Grigorii Golosov. How has the opposition leader managed to become so...
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A Greek tragedy on the London stage: the City, the Eurozone crisis and an...
Capitalist perpetrators of the crash are intent on using the opportunity provided by austerity to divert political and economic power to compliant nation states and emergent para-sovereign bodies, such...
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Car parks for global wealth: the super-rich in London
Over half of the super-prime market is now owned by foreign wealth, funds and individuals – looking to make money by simply parking it there while stock markets and other forms of investment offer...
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In your ear
A quarter of all e-commerce will be conducted by mobile devices by 2016. Our Sunday Comics columnist, after a repulsive dream, tracks the various intrusions into his life via his phoneThis story is...
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