TIG/Renew merger proves: they really ARE ‘all the same’
Accusations centrists of any party ‘all the same’ borne out by ‘merger’ The longstanding accusation that centrists are the same regardless of the rosette they wear – which led to […]
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Video: quitter party interim leader doesn’t know its name
Heidi Allen is interim leader of Change UK – or something As the SKWAWKBOX covered earlier today, the ‘quitter group’ of MPs has applied to be a political party in […]
Guest post pt 2: understanding Labour heartlands, winning back UKIP vote
In a follow-up to his first hard-hitting guest post, South Yorkshire teacher, Labour voter and trade union activist Andy Searson moves from analysis of the working-class Brexit vote and why […]
Thatcherite think-tank tweets offering sandwiches to foodbanks
The Adam Smith Institute (ASI), an openly neoliberal ‘think-tank’ founded just before Margaret Thatcher first entered Downing Street, was a key source of the policies that she inflicted on the […]
While Tories flounder, statesman Corbyn shows real vision and leadership
The Tories are in helpless, floundering chaos over Brexit and on Thursday Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson gave a foolish, shallow speech that only emphasised the hypocrisy and intellectual bankruptcy of […]
Williamson’s video is an education on the wider causes of #Grenfell tragedy
Shadow Fire and Emergency Services Minister has issued a new video that gives a brilliant short history of the societal, economic and political causes of the Grenfell Tower disaster – […]
Desperate #Tories: “#Corbyn can win. ALL that matters now is stopping him”
The sense of Tory panic continues and intensified, heightened still further by Corbyn’s ‘tanks on lawn’ decision today to continue in General Election mode and profit from his unassailable position […]
This means war? Bevan’s legacy: risk, reward, retaliation & resolution
I spent the train journey down to London this morning reading the first chapters of Aneurin Bevan’s ‘In Place of Fear’, a master-work that was republished for the 60th anniversary of […]
Proven: IMF brings down economies intentionally
Unless you’ve read Naomi Klein’s ‘The Shock Doctrine’, I bet you’ve never heard of Davison Budhoo. I certainly hadn’t, until I read the book. Budhoo was a Caribbean economist, trained […]
O Canada! When right-wing crisis-engineering came out of the closet
If you’ve read some of my other posts, you’ll know that I’m re-reading ‘The Shock Doctrine’ by the very excellent Naomi Klein. I can’t encourage you enough to get and […]