Nearly a month after the polls closed, it is still an extraordinary thought that London, of all places, is to be represented in the eyes of the world by a man like Boris Johnson, writes Mike Marqusee.

The Nakba of 1948 is far more than a historical controversy. It’s an unresolved and pressing global issue that the Western powers who created it must take responsibility for argues Mike Marqusee.

The atrocious treatment of asylum seekers to the UK from war-torn countries such as Iraq has spawned a network of resistance that illustrates an oft underestimated acceptance of refugees in this country argues Mike Marqusee.

The facts of the Nakba (catastrophe) are now well documented and beyond dispute. Yet Nakba denial remains widespread, and is as vile as denial of any other historic crime. Mike Marqusee reports.

As a programme of celebrations in Britain marks the 60th anniversary of the birth of the state of Israel, writes Mike Marqusee, Palestinians and their supporters will be recalling the same event in entirely different tones, and without the benefit of state support or vast sums of money. In meetings, conferences and exhibitions they will seek to remind the world of the Nakba – catastrophe in Arabic – that accompanied Israel’s birth in 1948.

While the headlines in the British newspapers scream about the invasion of immigrants, Iraq and Afghanistan – countries the UK invaded – are among the most poorly reported conflicts in living memory, writes Mike Marqusee.

The myth that the Olympics are a boon for London endures, writes Mike Marqusee, despite the evidence.

Mike Marqusee offers a personal reflection on St Bartholomews Hospital, its democratic heritage, and pressure that that heritage is now under as New Labour expand their privatising measures in the NHS.

Mike Marqusee argues that peace in Northern Ireland was only possible because the British government gave in to Nationalist demands and granted equal civil rights to the Catholic population of the six counties.

The current emphasis on British values and identity in history teaching will sacrifice genuine historical inquiry for a pre-digested package premised on the false notion that there is a continuing and ever-distinct “Britishness” which is, somehow, a good thing. By Mike Marqusee

The Iraq war was not merely a dreadful error committed by lame duck politicians, writes Mike Marqusee: it is an ongoing atrocity, a crime in the course of being perpetrated. And as it is a crime in which the British government is a major culprit, the consequences are likely to continue to be visited on our shores.

After ten years as Prime Minister, Tony Blair faces the end of the road, and for most of us in Britain, his resignation will come not a moment too soon says Mike Marqusee

Mike Marqusee on the growing resistance to Anglo-American occupation in Iraq and the responsbility of Britain’s likely next prime minister for the disaster in the country.

The reality constructed by “Reality TV” producers is one in which banality is alleviated by personal antagonism, writes Mike Marqusee. It institutionalises the exhibitionism-voyeurism syndrome that seems to be characteristic of our global consumer society.

After nearly four years of occupation, resulting in the deaths of 650,000 Iraqis, the US and its British lapdog have decided that the only remedy for the Iraq debacle is more of the same.

Whenever scientific research produces results that are inconvenient to people in power, they seek to deny, discredit or downplay them.

Some people feel uncomfortable speaking to young women with a bare midriffs or large white men with union jack tattoos, but no cabinet member is administering public lectures about their choices.

The preoccupation with cultural difference disguises the core problem afflicting race relations in Britain: the reluctance of a significant section of the white majority to “integrate” into Britain’s multi-cultural society, to accept its democracy, and the willingness of newspapers and politicians to pander to that reluctance.

Extensive interview with Mike Marqusee on the political side of cricket.

Nearly five years after the U.S.-led coalition dispatched the Taliban and proclaimed a new dawn for Afghanistan, foreign troops are waging a full-scale war against insurgents said to control as much as half the country. Meanwhile, millions of Afghans face starvation, and the development and democracy promised by Western leaders has yet to materialise.