There are institutions so deeply stitched into the national fabric that we forget they were ever built at all. The BBC is one of them. It did not simply appear as a natural feature of British life; it was constructed — deliberately, ambitiously — as a civic project rooted in the belief that a nation … Continue reading
There is a Tony Blair problem. Not because the former Prime Minister still wields real power, but because too many in the political class continue to treat him as a sage rather than as the architect of a settlement that collapsed under its own contradictions. The Morning Star’s description of him as a “cadaverous incarnation … Continue reading
Nearly 60,000 warrants issued. Tens of thousands still outstanding. Victims waiting years. Defendants vanishing abroad. Channel 4’s Dispatches investigation into Britain’s fugitive problem arrives not as a curiosity from the margins of criminal justice but as a warning from its centre. What happens to public faith when appearing for trial begins to look less like an obligation … Continue reading