Last Straw

Boris Frankel in Melbourne’s The Age: Here is some good news. Just as the Great Depres­sion inspired sig­ni­fic­ant social reforms, so the cur­rent “great world reces­sion” is pro­du­cing a spate of over­due reform pro­pos­als. Some of these pro­pos­als have emerged in Bri­tain, one of the most unequal soci­et­ies in the developed world. While Aus­tralia ranks […]

Bind­mans, a Lon­don law firm, is pre­par­ing to launch a legal chal­lenge against the UK police’s use of ket­tling: Bind­mans is … pre­par­ing to launch a legal chal­lenge against the use of “ket­tling”, the police tac­tic used to pen in 5,000 people dur­ing the G20 protests and a strategy which led to pro­test­ers suf­fer­ing asthma […]

Jeremy Pax­man: What is the dif­fer­ence between Zion­ism and racism? Peter Gooder­ham: Well we see the two as being quite dis­tinct, um, Zion­ism is clearly a … Jeremy Pax­man: Yeah what’s the dif­fer­ence? Peter Gooder­ham: Well Zion­ism is a polit­ical move­ment, um, relat­ing to the estab­lish­ment … Jeremy Pax­man (queitly): So are some forms of […]