Labour must watch its left flank in months to come
Left Unity is the hottest thing on the left right now. In a few short months, it has attracted more than 1,800 …
Appearance on RT News: Spiraling debt
Britain’s household debts are spiraling out of control as a result of the government’s austerity policies, causing people to fall into arrears …
Appearance on RT News: Battling the bedroom tax
Last month, a UN report slammed the bedroom tax for causing Britain’s most vulnerable people into tremendous despair. The government brushed it …
Appearance on LBC Radio: Nick Ferrari interviews me on inheritance tax
In a bid to shore up his right flank from the UKIP onslaught, David Cameron is once again suggesting the Tories could …
Did Nick Clegg receive a spine for Christmas, or just a second face?
Either it’s an election year, or Nick Clegg has suddenly discovered some principles. This week, George Osborne announced that there would be …
Appearance on RT Going Underground: People power party
I was back on RT on Saturday, this time talking to Afshin Rattansi for their UK political talk show, Going Underground. Ten …
Britain must adopt a financial transaction tax
Eleven EU member states are pushing ahead with a plan to introduce a tiny tax on financial transactions. Four of Europe’s five …
Ken Loach discusses his hopes for Left Unity
Salman Shaheen speaks to Ken Loach about the director’s hopes for founding a new party to the left of Labour, and what …
Appearance on RT News: Britain’s network of tax havens
The Tax Justice Network has released a report slamming Britain as the worst offender when it comes to financial secrecy thanks to …
Let’s stop subsidising big companies to exploit poor people
Austerity has extracted the last vestiges of “compassion” from conservatism, distilling what remains into policies so poisonously unfair they have led people …