For instance, we know that a small but significant number of people facing serious problems in their lives bounce between different kinds of support – drug and alcohol treatment, supported housing, mental health services, and sometimes prison.... Read more
No British politician who has also served in government was ever subjected to as much hostility and calumny from the Tory Party, from the mainstream media, or even from senior colleagues in his own Labour Party (LP) as was Anthony Wedgewood Benn during the period stretching from the late 1970s to the end of the 1980s. Yet on his passing, tributes flowed from across the political spectrum and... Read more
Much is being bloviated today, at the moment of her physical interment, about Margaret Thatcher the celebrity politician. Yet much more compelling, and relevant for our times, is the story of how ideas associated with her were made, packaged, sold and re-cycled. That process is illustrated in two cases of transnational networks that helped spread ‘Thatcherism’ and kindred ideas into the... Read more
High levels of military spending played a key role in the unfolding European economic crisis and continues to undermine efforts to resolve it, alleges a new report by Transnational Institute and the Dutch Campaign against the Arms Trade.... Read more
