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Roadworks in London caused by a Thames Water repair.

Drowning in Debt: The Final Failure of Water Privatisation

The £3bn bailout of Thames Water is not a rescue but a reckoning, three decades after privatisation, Britain’s largest water company has collapsed under the weight of debt, greed, and regulatory failure, leaving the public to clean up the mess.

The Games We Play

For one long summer, our local rec was filled with the sound of kids playing kabaddi, breath held, bodies darting between the swings and the seesaw, a game that arrived without fanfare and disappeared just as suddenly. Now, as the Kabaddi World Cup lands in the West Midlands, and football bends to the will of capital, the games Britain plays, and who controls them, tell us more than ever about the country we have become.

Logo for the Department for Work & Pensions

Labour’s War on the Poor

Labour’s plan to cut £5 billion from disability benefits isn’t just a betrayal of its supposed principles, it’s a grim rerun of austerity, dressed up in the language of tough but fair reform.

Front cover snip of Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck showing the twi towers appearing from a cloud, looks menacing

Spectacle and Surveillance

This review explores how Richard Beck’s Homeland and Lewis Lapham’s Age of Folly reveal the profound domestic and global consequences of America’s response to 9/11, from creeping authoritarianism at home to declining influence abroad.