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.

nef, the New Economics Foundation, has produced a new report looking at the impact of government regeneration schemes. The Executive Summary is reproduced here.

Gay and bisexual men in Britain cannot give blood. Robert McDowall calls for support to overturn a homophobic law.

Simon Whelan reports on a big push by the Brown government – aided by the Royal Family and the right wing press – to promote the British ‘values’ of patriotism and militarism.

Militant secularists are becoming apologists for capitalism and war, but the struggle is within faiths, not against them, argues Seamus Milne.

The Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) takes a look at the prejudices behind the BBC’s recent ‘White Season’.

In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.

The Independent Working Class Association looks at the increasing gap in life expectancy between different social classes.

Life for children in Britain is incredibly difficult, writes Richard Seymour, caught as they are between increasing poverty and violent abuse on the one hand and relentless demonisation and authoritarian “clamp downs” on the other.

We need to get ready for a big battle over abortion rights, argues Judith Orr, and the deluge of moral outrage about women’s lives that will accompany it.

The budget suggests that Brown and Darling have failed to recognise the cost of ignoring working-class alienation, argues Seamus Milne.

Rupa Huq argues that we need to reconceptualise suburban life.

Julian Dobson is sceptical about the Government’s new policy on ‘lifetime homes’.