Skip to main content
Broken Britain – what happens when everything falls apart?
The self-rewarding rich fear any notion of radical change in the way that politics, government and economics works, but this is our only lifeline, warns ALAN SIMPSON
Damage inside Parks Primary School in Leicester which has been affected with sub standard reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac).

THE roof is falling in on the British economy. For over 150 schools in England this is a literal as well as a figurative truth.

On the eve of the autumn term, schools were notified they couldn’t reopen because defective concrete in their roofs put them at risk of imminent collapse.

They were thrown into a frantic replanning of where and how teaching might take place. Parents hadn’t a clue what this might mean.

A catalogue of collapse

Laughing at the Luftwaffe?

Inverting obligations

The power of the corporate pound

Fracturing realities

Beyond orthodoxy

Liberation webinar, 30 November2024, 6pm (UK)
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
US President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as
Features / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
As the ‘NRx movement’ plots to replace democracy with corporate-feudal dictatorship, Britain must pursue a radical alternative of local food security and genuine wealth redistribution to withstand the coming upheaval, writes ALAN SIMPSON
10trump
Features / 30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Some hard political choices must be made in Trump’s post-truth era – starting by abandoning any illusions about the ‘special relationship’ and waking up to the need for bold policy-making on the climate, argues ALAN SIMPSON
PLUMMETING IN THE POLLS: Keir Starmer’s popularity ratings
3 January 2025
3 January 2025
Centrist governments around the world face rejection by their electorates as neoliberalism fails to deliver the public prosperity it never promised – and the same fate awaits Labour unless it starts to deliver for those struggling to survive, says ALAN SIMPSON
demo
Features / 2 December 2024
2 December 2024
Undaunted by Big Oil success, ALAN SIMPSON looks at alternatives to lack of courage and imagination stifling the Labour government and it policies