Britain is often heralded as a country in which the rights and welfare of survivors of conflict and persecution are well embedded, and where the standard of living conditions for those seeking asylum is relatively high. Drawing on a decade of activism and research in the North W…
Modern Britain is forged through the redeployment of structures that facilitated and legitimised slavery, exploitation and extermination. This is the 'empire at home' and it is inseparable from the strategies of neo-colonial extraction and oppression of subjects abroad. Here, Ja…
How is Britain enacting colonialism at home?
Modern Britain is forged through the redeployment of structures that facilitated and legitimised slavery, exploitation and extermination. This is the 'empire at home' and it is inseparable from the strategies of neo-colonial extraction and oppression of subjects abroad. Here, Ja…
"Each of the 2018 Democratic Audit's 37 short chapters starts with clear criteria for what democracy requires in that part of the nation's political life and outlines key recent developments before a SWOT analysis (of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) crystallise…
Anthony Sampson, exasperated by the lack of democracy and accountability in Blair's Britain, examines power today and finds it increasingly centralised in Downing Street, which has never been more distant from parliament - or closer to big business. Sampson is impatient with abu…
An account of investigative journalist Nick Davies' quest to expose the News of the world phone hacking scandal.
-- SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 -- 'This has all the elements - lying, corruption, blackmail - at the highest levels of government by the biggest newspaper in London' GEORGE CLOONEY