Today I was reminded of a piece of writing I did last summer. I didn’t publish it at the time, when all and sundry were facebooking and tweeting David’s piece, because it was unfinished. It’s still unfinished but I thought…
This is a little ramble I posted on facebook last night. Maybe it is complete bollocks, but also maybe it will help us to consider struggles over the wage and wage-form differently from how they have been considered in a…
Last week, Chuka Umunna, MP for Streatham in South London signed a letter to Justice Secretary Chris Grayling asking that the criminalisation of squatting in residential buildings (brought in last year) be extended to commercial premises too. This afternoon Umunna,…
Over the last couple of years more and more official Metropolitan Police twitter accounts have popped up. These are part of the Met’s wider media operation, although the individual accounts are often controlled much further down the ranks – hence…
Let us imagine two hypothetical families living in London: The first is composed of a mother, a father, and two children aged 7 and 11; the second is identical, but with four children, twins aged 3, a child aged 7,…
“It is impossible to remain in a large German city where hunger forces the most wretched to live on the banknotes with which passers-by seek to cover an exposure that wounds them.” – Walter Benjamin[1] “I could eat a horse.”…
From today (21/10/12) new sanctions on benefits are being rolled out by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), whereby people who don’t comply with the terms of their receipt of benefits can have their benefits docked for up to…