Dear George Osborne
Today you said that welfare was 'hugely expensive'.
You said this either because you are ignorant or because you're lying. You must know that what is 'hugely expensive' at the moment is that the kind of economy you believe in has ground to a halt for reasons that...
If all those subject to the new bedroom tax challenge the council’s decision to reduce their housing benefit, Council Housing Benefit offices will simply not be able to manage to process all the applications. We are encouraging as many people as possible to challenge these decisions as if enough...
The crisis facing Britain today is not austerity, austerity is the result of a much greater crisis which is ongoing. It is a crisis that was created by the wealthiest people and institutions in the country and the world. The ongoing crisis we face is the neoliberal agenda to...
Amidst growing pressure on the government over the bedroom tax, UK Uncut, the anti cuts direct action network, has announced that it plans to ‘ramp up the resistance’ to the benefits cap and the bedroom tax by undertaking civil disobedience across the country next month – Saturday 13 April.UK...
After scrutiny by the magazine’s legal team, a heavily edited version of this piece was originally published by Sabotage Times in March 2013. In the interests of contributing to a much wider debate on the Catholic Church, an institution I strongly believe to be utterly rotten and corrupt to...
Consider this: the army, like any organisation comprising hundreds of thousands of men and women, will contain almost as many different types as there are people. Just being a soldier doesn't make any of them heroes... You might need to sit down for this one. Ready? OK, here goes…...
To mark the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war we asked internationally renowned Peter Kennard for an interview (published tomorrow) and for use of some of his photomontage. With @earth they have sought to use photomontage to depict the reality of war and uncover what the mainstream media largely ignores....
Comment on Echo article about HM Coastguard contract being given to an American company:- TAXPAYERS, we are talking about H.M. COASTGUARD SERVICE. The word that comes to mind is TREASON, a word described in the English Dictionary as an act of deliberate betrayal, or, a crime against one's...
Dorset Eye welcomes international writer Andy Worthington to our pages. If you enjoy this article see Dorset Eye's interview with Dorset resident Clive Stafford Smith who heads the organisation Reprieve - a leading international light in defending human rights.
When is a hunger strike not a hunger strike? Apparently, when the government...
An overview of racist attacks and convictions over the last two months. A couple of weeks ago David Cameron said he was ‘disturbed’ to hear that the proposed building of a small mosque in his Witney constituency had been cancelled as a result of racist threats to burn it...
