How Workers Organised Aid During the Bosnian War  The activities of International Workers Aid during the 1993-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina proved the power of solidarity – and can still inspire us today (Tribune, 17 November 2021)

Faith in the Factories The ‘worker priest’ movement emerged in mid-20th century France before spreading to other countries, and the spirit of the movement endures today (Tribune, 24 October 2021)

Post-punk band Au Pairs: ‘The Thatcher years gave us plenty of material’ The story of Birmingham post-punk band the Au Pairs, and the relevance of their songs today (Guardian, 17 May 2021)

It’s the twilight of cyber-Bennism. What’s next? Unless people ask the right questions, and the difficult questions, the Left might be cast into irrelevance. (Medium, April 2020)

The man who tried to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter Kurt Tucholsky was a Weimar-era critic who resisted the xenophobia he saw all around him. In another era of rising nationalism, what can his writing tell us today? (Open Democracy, 9 Jan 2020)

Capturing Precarity Several recent films make visible the threads binding the precarious to the plutocrats. (Tribune, 28 December 2019)

Berlin: precarious but not so sexy The city has become a honey-pot for creatives, but a nightmare for many of the artists who live there. (Open Democracy, 9 September 2019)

If Ed Miliband is the answer – then what is the question? Bringing back Ed Miliband would signal a return to brand over values. (Open Democracy, 31 May 2019)

It’s time for the Brexiteers to awake from their red, white and blue daydream For the Brexit movers and shakers, the past isn’t what it used to be, and nor is the present. (Open Democracy, 23 March 2019)

Bring back the bad wires Radical children’s fantasy television of the 70s exposed small people to big ideas. (Tribune, 2 February 2019)

Lexit: The biggest unicorn of them all Lexit is presented as the radical Left choice. But is it based on a true understanding of the EU? (Open Democracy, 18 Jan 2019)

The dangers of a push-button Brexit  The 2016 vote offered a binary choice of in or out. Any new vote must expand the conversation. (Open Democracy, 6 Dec 2018)

Tiny Wars and Special Cases: Remembering Local Struggle  The story of Cinderloo, ‘just one of capital’s tiny wars’. (New Socialist, 19 Nov 2018)

Why Brexit is like the 1970s  While the nation counts down the final hours to a collective ulcer, the question is surely: can a deal be done or is the hardest of Brexits a done deal? (Independent, 17 October 2018)

The TV show that proves we’re trapped in a dictatorship of unique circles  Aiden poses the immortal riddle ‘what is Brexit?’ and no one knows because they’ve never got a naked picture of it. (Medium, 20 September 2018)

Trapped on Brexit Island  No matter what kind of Brit you are—from Galashiels to Gibraltar—we’re all trapped in the same bizarre mental archipelago: Brexit Island. (Open Democracy, 30 August 2018)

Telford at 50: Could new towns offer a fresh start to millennials today? As well as too many roundabouts, new towns gave me, and millions of others, a home and a head start. (Guardian, 8 August 2018)

De-Brexification We need an end to the ideological austerity imposed by neoliberal capitalism. (Bella Caledonia, 22 February 2018)

The Last True British European Spare a thought for our Malvolio of Marbella, Duty Free star Keith Barron, who died this week aged 83. (Medium, 18 November 2017)

Trench Brexit The UK government’s rhetorical trench warfare cannot hide Brexit’s grim realities forever. (Ceasefire, September 2017)

Life’s a pitch Welcome to the new economy, where everyone is free to submit to another round of degrading competition. (Open Democracy, August 2017)

What ‘lemonade-gate’ says about our society – Why is entrepreneurship our highest good? (Medium, July 2017)

The Black and White Brexit Show  The hallucinatory rhetoric behind the Tory election campaign. (Medium, June 2017)

Why Facebook makes you argue with people you’ve never met…and people you have met  Why do Facebook conversations become sectarian slanging matches? (Medium, May 2016)

This is not a refugee crisis This is not a refugee crisis; it’s a crisis of racism, of hatred, of information. (ROAR magazine, Dec. 2015)

The rise of the ‘peer-to-peer populists’ Explaining the rise of Syriza, Podemos and Scotland’s Radical Independence Campaign. (Red Pepper, Jan. 2015)