Muhammad Idrees Ahmad discusses fear politics and the changing face of Britain.

Crime is down, convictions are down, but the prisons are bursting. Why?

The legacy of the British state militates against democratic citizenship, says David Beetham. Any discussion of ‘Britishness’ that ignores this reality is bound to be incomplete

The children’s commissioners for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have combined forces in a joint report to the United Nations to condemn the treatment of children in the United Kingdom. Stuart Weir reports.

Marcus Morgan argues that Boris Johnson’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to crime is symptomatic of growing police powers across the UK and harks back to the detested “Sus” laws of the 1980s, when police were able to stop and search based on suspicion alone.

In the last 12 months, 19 young people under the age of 27, many of them in their teens, have committed suicide in and around South Wales. Dave O’Sullivan explores this saddening trend by considering how young people today are too often regarded as a problem, not as society’s greatest asset and its future.

We must take on the far right by the force of our arguments, says Stuart Weir

The abandonment of council housing building has worsened dramatically the housing crisis, both socially and financially. Glyn Robbins argues the case for publicly-owned, democratically-run and high-quality social housing.

Thanks to New Labour, what we have is a facsimile of a true meritocracy, a pretend society, says the Independent Working Class Association

Fathers have their place, says Laurie Penny, but that place is no longer at the head of the table.

What lies behind the recent spate of teenage killings? The Independent Working Class Association suggests that economic inequality and an ‘emotionally pathologising version of neo-liberalism’ are to blame.

Ron Jacobs looks back at the Thatcher era through the prism of David Peace’s novel GB84

Douglas Murray’s brand of neo-conservatism, which calls for all immigration into Europe from Muslim countries to be stopped, has cast it’s shadow over government policy and perhaps even Nato planning argues Tom Griffin.

The Voice reports on a huge rise in the number of teenagers being killed on the streets of London.

Britain’s social recession is having effects which are every bit as painful and unsettling as those suffered during an economic downturn. Jonathan Rutherford reports.

The recent BBC White Season painted a bleak picture of the white working class in Britain today as bigoted and broken. Martin Smith argues that these stereotypes are encouraged by politicians and the media to divide us and are far from the experiences of working people’s real lives.

The Independent Working Class Association takes issue with what they call ‘the inept political strategy of multiculturalism’.

Britain is going to suffer acutely in the forthcoming downturn, says Jonathan Rutherford, since our social infrastructure has been heavily eroded by economic liberalism

Jim Mortimer analyses the growth and consequences of inequality.