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A persistent myth on the left is that it was the unions that were responsible for workers being given the weekend off. After all, if it wasn’t for the class [...]

‘The Danish song is a young blond girl’, wrote the Danish poet Kai Hoffman in 1924, and two years later his famous compatriot, the composer Carl Nielsen, [...]

In December, Katowice in Poland played host to the UN’s latest gathering to discuss climate change, the 24th such summit, and it again ended with talk of [...]

Another January, another rail fare increase. After a year of disruption, including the chaos around the introduction of the new time tables, [...]

In June, when Italy’s populist 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the Northern League agreed to form the republic’s 61st post-WWII government, a conflict with the [...]

Change. It’s a political buzzword. Even though there is broad consensus in western countries that the modern, democratic welfare state is the optimal way to [...]

Representative democracy in one form or another has been the norm in Western societies since the post-industrial revolution years. The idea of one man, one [...]

Hate crime has its own brand-new website courtesy of Her Majesty’s Government. On www.hatecrime.campaign.gov.uk we are told how the government has designated [...]

One of the curious effects of the extreme polarisation of politics in the post-Trump and Brexit era is that people do not only disagree with current policy but [...]

What does it mean to be rich? Who are the rich? And how rich are they? Do they make a lot of money or do they have a lot of money? Dividing the population up [...]