Occupy London Articles

Labour’s bout of post-election hangover came heavy and hard. The outbreak of briefing was less a revolt than a nervous shudder, with different prescriptions and solutions competing for the ear of the leader, and offering a path forward to victory. There are those...

From the start, there was something different about the last recession. The financial crisis hit all sectors of the economy at the same time and demand fell across the economy. People were angry yet the backlash was relatively muted. The Occupy demonstrations for a...

Across Europe voters – the people – are reacting against the harsh measures their leaders have decreed are essential for their economic survival.  Elections in France and Greece have not shown simply that people have stuck their heads in the sand and refused to face...

Defeats for those at the top, the playwright Bertolt Brecht once observed, aren’t always victories for those at the bottom. And so the defeat – or at least, delay – of the Corporation of London’s eviction of the St Paul’s Occupiers will not trigger a renaissance for...