Britain on the slow road to broadband
The OECD yesterday released a tranche of statistics on broadband penetration in member countries as of the end of 2009 with data collated including the number of broadband subscribers per country,...
View ArticleDebate rages over the ‘unavoidable’ budget
The consistently repeated dictum from the Treasury and government front benches over the last several weeks is that the coalition’s June budget was a product of necessity rather than a consequence of...
View ArticleConsumers charged for copyright infringement
The Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills this week concluded its consultation on how to pay for the enforcement elements of the new the Digital Economy Act (DEA). The framework established...
View ArticlePost-Browne, Labour must strive harder for inter-generational justice
Yesterday Vince Cable was busy defending the Browne report’s findings to the House of Commons, claiming that he accepted the “broad thrust” of the report and that a potential removal of the existing...
View ArticleLabour must understand the transformed politics of “anxious aspiration”
Tristram Hunt in this month’s Progress makes a very valuable point and one that I think is at the heart of the changed nature of the ‘politics of aspiration’ in light of the recent financial crisis: “…...
View ArticleThe student movement 2010: The rise of the dissent entrepreneur
Aaron Peters is currently at a student occupation at University College London where he will be staying for as long as is permitted; even within the confines of this one microcosm of the movement, the...
View ArticleAnti-cuts networks are more flexible and effective than big organisations
Yesterday marked the continuation and escalation of a campaign led by the decentralised activist network UKUncut against major UK businesses who fail to meet their full tax obligations. The first...
View Article2011: The year political activism and progressive politics goes open source
The last several months have witnessed some of the most exciting developments in British grassroots politics for a generation. While in the immediate aftermath of the May general election it appeared,...
View ArticleNetworks can be deliberative, accountable and consensual in decision making
One of the big stories at the end of 2010 was the emergence of a number of social movements engaging in the biggest flood of direct action this country has seen for decades. Working synchronously the...
View ArticleAtheists are now the terrorists in Saudi Arabia. You couldn’t make it up
Evan Helmuth is a freelance writer covering the middle east Saudi Arabia is no stranger to the problem of terrorism. Eighteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals and the kingdom had its...
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