By Karen Orr Our public discourse is a rotting corpse. A pernicious blight infects the way we consume news and understand our society. It is the toxic marriage between the billionaire-owned press baron model and the hunger for anger clickbait. This alliance doesn’t seek to inform; it seeks to inflame, to divide, and ultimately, to […]
To win disabled people over, the left needs to change the rhetoric. We cannot mirror the Right’s idea of “useless eaters”. If we truly want to create a better future, we need to find a way to make a world where everyone can live happily – including those who cannot work. A few weeks ago, […]
“Every generation must fight the same battles again and again and again,” said Tony Benn in one of his more memorable speeches. “There is no final victory, and there is no final defeat.” Those who buy into what those trying to shift power from the ballot box to the market-place with austerity, balanced budgets, so-called […]
