Opinion
Publishers must support working class writers battling with self-doubt
The practical barriers can be addressed but how can we fix a collective consciousness that accepts it is virtually impossible for a working-class writer to be published?
Trump threatened a military occupation of blue states. Was anybody listening?
Just as racists blamed the Civil Rights movement on Communists and other agitators, today their ideological inheritors have invented an imaginary enemy to detract from very real racism ingrained in the American justice system.
Tribal Britain: The government needs it, we don’t
The exploitation of resentment and selfishness has become central to politics in Britain today.
“I’m not the architect of my misfortune” – why white people should be asking what racism means to them
Flipping the question could ultimately offer the best answer to how white people can help combat insidious prejudice in western societies.
UK poverty crisis and Covid-19: The collateral damage of a decade of austerity
A Government should ultimately be judged on how it supports the most vulnerable in society.
Don’t bother filming the next Black Mirror – we are already living it
Dystopia in societies where there is already great suffering and injustice is obsolete.
Coronavirus recovery is opportunity to create a circular economy
Our current model isn’t working; we need a profound change, and we need it quickly. It’s up to us all to act swiftly, to mobilise and realise the opportunities of a circular economy.
Is the UK government too hasty in unlocking schools?
Other European countries have started sending kids back to school, but as we have seen, we are not like other countries.
We are not “all in this together” – The forgotten freelancers
So much for leaving no one behind. We most certainly are not “all in this together.