Labour Vision I was born a British citizen, I have grown up here my whole life, but I was not born in this country, and nor was my father. As part of an immigrant family, I have a simple plea, stop sacrificing us at the altar of electability and populism. I am not asking for our
It seems in particularly poor taste that on Holocaust Memorial Day of all days, Theresa May chose to announce that the UK will no longer be a nation that persecuted and oppressed peoples can rely on to protect them in their times of need. It was not a blanket.
It is a symptom of modern times that our attention span is so short. We are in an era where everyone, not just the much maligned ‘millennial’, uses social media to denounce their enemies. To tell the world who is ‘Scum’ or ‘a disgrace’. The time is such that we cannot
A universal basic income (UBI) has long been mooted as the solution to a number of employment and welfare-related issues, most notably the increased mechanisation of the workforce, as well as reducing the stigma that is attached to those who have to claim welfare
In his most recent, marathon blog on Leave’s victory in last year’s referendum, Dominic Cummings makes the well-worn, but oft forgotten point that moments like our decision to leave the EU are by their nature over-determined, the product of a confluence
“A plague a’ both your houses.” ~ Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet Act 3, Scene 1, 91. As I type this article, the election for the General Secretary of UNITE the union is in full force. Candidates have decided on a their strategy and sent out literature to decide the who
Across the world, reactionary forces are on the march. In America, Donald Trump is intent on closing US borders to history’s latest ‘other’ – Muslims. Meanwhile, the UK is now embarking on a ‘hard Brexit’, putting as much political
To be patriotic is seen, in the era of Trump and Brexit, as a negative position for the left. The connotation is one of right-wing nationalism, of fear and suspicion of “foreigners” and an historically-illiterate reading of a nation’s past. Whilst this description may.
A socialist on the sidelines is an ineffectual and useless person. They can attend protests outside Parliament and shout all they want but the decisions happen within it, not without it. Pressure matters, but only so far as how much the government fears the reaction.
Amidst the shock and misery that befell Labour’s true believers in the wake of our loss of Copeland yesterday morning, some people – including Labour’s ‘leader’ – tried to shift people’s focus onto the fact that we had held Stoke Central. This was due, they said,