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Image Description: A picture of former Chancellor George Osborne standing outside Number 11 Downing Street with the red Budget Box. This week our columnists look into the near future, and disagree over what should be done to recover economically post-COVID… Dan Harrison is a first year HisPol student at Worcester, and our on the Left […]
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Recently the UK government offered Nissan up to £80m to remain in the UK and continue to produce vehicles in their Sunderland plant, where it currently employs roughly 7,000 people. Government subsidies aren’t in themselves unusual – they ensure that significant amounts of innovation and production can take place in a number of sectors, or […]
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Over the last few weeks, politicians have been criss-crossing the country, campaigning for votes in the hope of securing electoral victory. Once again, young people have been singled out as a powerful yet relatively disengaged demographic. With this in mind, it is striking that politicians have not done more to attract younger voters by proposing […]
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David Cameron’s call for more Muslim women to be taught English is symptomatic of his mixed record on women’s issues; it is, however, more nuanced than some of his critics allege. The initiative to release £20 million of funds to improve the English of Muslim women, 22% of whom, the government claims, speak little or […]
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‘March with us on 20 June for justice, for working people, for peace, for workers’ rights, for a living wage, a house building programme, for publicly owned utilities, and for society run in the interests of the people-not a society run for the racket of the small elite at the top’. This is the rallying […]
Continue ReadingA meeting of the Oxford County Council has passed a new budget agreement meaning that 38% of proposed funding cuts to the homeless services sector will go ahead. The decision means a £1.5m reduction in funding for Oxford’s homeless services and comes after months of campaigning in protest from students, service workers and members of […]
Continue ReadingTwo major events happened in the world of disability this week: firstly, the Paralympic opening ceremony, and secondly, a protest by disabled people outside the Atos headquarters in central London, against the Work Capability Assessment. The first event was widely reported; the second had to wait for a proper treatment until Newsnight at 10.30pm. Needless […]
Continue ReadingThe 2012 Olympics are not simply a sporting event, but a festival of repression and corporate propaganda. Let’s try and undo the myth that sport is apolitical, and least of all, the Olympics. From the 1936 Berlin Olympics to the sporting boycott of apartheid South Africa to the Olympic massacre in Mexico to the human […]
Continue ReadingLast Thursday, up to 400,000 public sector workers staged a day of strikes in protest of the UK government’s austerity programme. What was unusual was that 20,000 off-duty police officers also marched in the capital that day, albeit in a separate demonstration. Organized by the Police Federation of England & Wales, the representative body for […]
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