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Human rights in outcry over Met Police's decision to introduce live f…

The creation of a British security state

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Neil Mackay: It's time to focus on the threat Nigel Farage poses to d…

DEMOCRACY in Britain is far from in good health, but if it ever really starts to erode, the threat will come from a kind of Rotary Club fascism. The…

It's time to focus on the threat Nigel Farage poses to democracy

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Facebook says its ‘voter button’ is good for turnout. But should the …

What do we really know about the influence of the ‘voter button’?

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A little local difficulty | HeraldScotland

Incomers or native Scots? A scourge or a salvation? Stephen McGinty begins a special Weekend Extra investigation into the surge of English…

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The parallels between Scottish nationalism and racism are clear | Cla…

There is a certain irony to white people with progressive politics rubbishing what Sadiq Khan has to say about racism

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The World Today: Imagined Communities - On British Nationalism

Tariq Ali introduces a program about Benedict Anderson’s famous book, Imagined Communities. Benedict Anderson was a scholar of Southeast Asia with a special ...

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Europe’s right turn alarms political elites

It is just three years old. But Alternative für Deutschland has made the most significant gains of a far-right party in Germany since 1945. Can anything stop Europe’s nationalist surge?

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The driving force behind far-right populism | DW Documentary

Right-wing populism is on the rise in Germany and across the world. Lurking behind some of these groups are right-wing extremists, hoping to gain ground. Pub...

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Malnutrition deaths in hospitals in England and Wales at highest leve…

The number of people dying in hospital as a result of malnutrition has hit its highest level for a decade, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show. Death certificates from England and Wales show that malnutrition was listed as the primary cause in a total of 66 deaths in 2016. This compares to 43 people in 2011, 55 in 2013, and 59 people in 2015.

Many of these people will eventually come into hospital or a care home – in fact nearly one in three of all older people admitted to hospital are already malnourished or at risk of malnutrition.

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Figures show rise in malnutrition deaths in England and Wales | Socie…

Malnutrition was underlying cause of 66 deaths in 2016 and a contributory factor in 285 more

Malnutrition was underlying cause of 66 deaths in 2016 and a contributory factor in 285 more.

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44-year-old died months after sickness and housing benefits were stopped following Atos fitness-for-work assessment

The Oxfordshire coroner, Darren Salter, said that although it was impossible to identify the cause of death, it was probably "caused or contributed to by Wood being markedly underweight and malnourished".

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Death has become a part of Britain’s benefits system | Frances Ryan |…

More than 80 people a month are now dying after being declared ‘fit for work’. The safety net that used to be there for the most vulnerable is being torn to shreds

Death has become a part of Britain’s benefits system. That is not hyperbole but the reality that the stress caused by austerity has led us to. Shredding the safety net – a mix of sanctions, defective “fit for work” tests, and outright cuts to multiple services – has meant that benefit claimants are dying; through suicide,starvation, and even being crushed by a refuse lorry when a 17-week benefit sanction forced a man to scavenge in a bin for food.

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Mark Smith: The four ways that the independence marchers have got it …

IT looked like a good day out, if you like that sort of thing. Thousands of people marching through Glasgow in support of Scottish independence;…

“Who Ms Sturgeon listens to is up to her, but if the Glasgow march has proved anything, it’s that listening to the man in the street is not always the wisest option.”

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Angela Haggerty: Don't dismiss Scottish independence marchers | Heral…

I REMEMBER in the days following both Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, seeing countless ‘names’ – politicians, commentators,…

Take a lesson from recent history and stop treating normal working people with disdain. They deserve better, and they know it.

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Bella Caledonia independence – self-determination – autonomy

It has been interesting to watch the reaction to the massive independence demonstration that took place in Glasgow, and to analyse the way it has been reported. Naturally, there have been some sympathetic to the independence cause who have asked if such events are effective in converting No voters. Then of course we have seen…

For now, it is over to Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP leadership to decide if they should use the mandate to call for another referendum. But even that won’t be the biggest decision they have to make. A much larger one, is what to do if the British state were to refuse their request. Because should that come to pass – Saturdays display of power gives us reason to believe that it would be eclipsed by even larger demonstrations should this come to pass.

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Fisk puts to test the free-press myth in Douma

Here’s how a free press, one owned by a handful of corporations, uses its freedom. It simply tells you what it is good for its business interests, or more

If that sounds like conspiratorial nonsense to you, consider this single example. Let’s take the matter of veteran Middle East reporter Robert Fisk arriving in Douma this week, the first western correspondent to get there. Fisk is like some relic from a bygone era, when journalists really sought to arrive at the truth, often at great personal danger, not simply win followers on Twitter.

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Chemical weapons experts press for access to Syria attack site | Worl…

Questions asked about how Russia was able to take sympathetic journalists to Douma while international inspectors have been waylaid on safety grounds

“A group of reporters, many favoured by Moscow, were taken to the site on Monday. They either reported that no weapon attack had occurred or that the victims had been misled by the White Helmets civilian defence force into mistaking a choking effect caused by dust clouds for a chemical attack.”