Mick Hall asks "What are these British values the likes of David Cameron and Hilary Benn talk up so proudly?" Mick Hall is a Marxist blogger @ Organized Rage.
One of the most destructive outcomes of Blairism, it left little clear blue water between the policies of the two main political parties in the UK, the Tories and New Labour.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.