Web Only: the best of the blogs
The five must-read blogs from today, including why Miliband must take a position on the strike.
View ArticleTime to scrap the Scotland Bill
Flawed and unloved, the Calman Commission's proposals don't meet the aspirations of Scots for greater self-government.
View ArticleGovernment hands out tech grants but faces IT skills crisis
With 2.6 million unemployed, many tech firms still cant find quality staff.
View ArticleOccupy Black Friday
Discount shoppers are not the 1% - and activists must remind them that another world is possible.
View ArticlePakistans memogate and the undermining of civilian rule
How the country's all-powerful military succeeded in bringing down the Pakistani ambassador to Washington.
View ArticleWhy we plan to strike on 30 November
Raising pension contributions is a hardship tax on public sector workers to pay down the deficit.
View ArticleBoris, the police and the pre-dawn raid
Heavy-handed, politicised policing leaves our communities less secure.
View ArticleSomalia: what is to be done?
The west must act carefully to stabilise the world's most failed state.
View ArticleDefending the indefensible
Israeli liberals are increasingly gloomy so British 'progressives' are being mobilised to fight the country's corner instead.
View ArticlePortugal: a case study in the politics of austerity
Portuguese workers face a bleak future but the country's weak, fragmented left has empowered the neoliberals.
View ArticleWhat is the point of democracy?
Peter Wilby on the second man in the Basil DOliveira story, why capitalism still has legs, Tory plans for strikers, left-right cycles and the disingenuousness of Hugh Grant.
View ArticleThe Sunday Sermon: Karen Armstrong
Alice Gribbin joins a secular congregation at prayer, and leaves with a warm glow.
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