Democracy under attack
Democracy under attack is the title of a new book which looks at the role of the media in driving social policy. It accuses journalists of distortion, dumbing down, hunting in packs and several other sins. Nothing remarkable about that, you might think, except that the author is a journalist – Malcolm Dean, until 2006 […]
Council housing evictions: a kneejerk reaction
Plans to evict council tenants involved in last week’s rioting are based on a number of false arguments. The government is simply looking for a headline-catching ruse to give the impression that it is responding robustly As kneejerk reactions go, David Cameron’s bid to evict rioters from council houses must count as one of the […]
John Perry lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he works on