Tim Holmes asks if today’s media fulfil their role as a ‘fourth estate’ or whether they have instead become a tool for the ‘manufacture of consent’

_Gary Fraser argues that the left needs to move beyond abstract analyses of the causes of crime and develop a critique of actual criminal policy, with a view to developing alternatives. This is the more important because crime is, of course, overwhelmingly a working class issue.

Tim Street in a UK Watch exclusive on the increasing militarisation of British universities, which has seen world-class institutions selling their expertise to improve Britain’s warmaking capabilities, and the growing movement to oppose this.

When it comes to the debate on the “new imperialism”, writes Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, the historical realities of Western involvement in Iraq are carefully ignored. What we have perpetrated, and continue to perpetrate, is no less than a protracted 90-year Holocaust.

Exclusive to ukwatch.net, Alex Doherty considers the emergence of the 9/11 conspiracy industry, and discusses how the anti-war movement may have contributed to its rise.

A transcript of a talk by George Monbiot, delivered at the recent annual conference of the World Development Movement, on the long history of direct action movements in Britain, and their persistent ability to defy the laws designed to keep them in check.