A Corbyn victory could end the Labour party, and set the wider labour movement back decades. Part of the following article is based on the fact Corbyn’s electoral strategy is fundamentally flawed, ...
Read more: The Nasty Party?
I’m not your classic Blairite. I understand, and have argued against, some of the key problems with Blairism. Labour’s right has, for several decades now, been guilty of talking down to people ...
Read more: A Defector's Tale
Jeremy Corbyn has indicated that he would like to see the re-nationalisation of the railways and energy companies. While such an idea seems rational, there are concerns about how this can be ...
Read more: Workers control of the means of production
On 23 January 1593, at the age of 40 and having been a convinced Protestant all his life, King Henri IV of France, renounced his faith and became a Catholic. He did this with the (possibly ...
Read more: Well Worth a Mass
As the Labour leadership election lurches towards its final conclusion, one thing is for certain, Jeremy Corbyn has dominated proceedings in a way not one political commentator could have possibly ...
Read more: What is the Labour Party so afraid of?
I thought today, the deadline for ‘supporting’ the Labour party in this important election, would be a good day to explain why I am voting Liz Kendall for the leadership of our great party. ...
Read more: The L Words: Leicester, Liz and Labour Leadership
While the rest of us have been distracted by the Labour leadership mess, it’s easy to forget that the eventual winner won’t be running against David Cameron. Cameron has already committed to ...
Read more: The Conservative Leadership Contest
In 2009 I was 15 and never had a girlfriend, my only real love was Graham Dorrans and the closest I got to any sort of exhilaration was seeing him score goals for fun against the likes of Scunthorpe ...
Read more: Why Labour needs to grow up
Margaret Thatcher once stated that one of her aims was to weaken or even end the trade union movement. She did almost have her way if it wasn’t for Tony Blair winning power in 1997, however at this ...
Read more: Jeremy Corbyn and the end of Trade Unions
Like many people I extremely concerned about the ability of our children and grandchildren to be able to live in many areas of the UK. Property values are such that owning a home is beyond the ...
Read more: The Housing Crisis: What Should Be Done?
There is a common misconception driving much of Corbyn’s support amongst Labour members. To many it seems obvious that those that don’t vote would unquestionably vote for Labour under Corbyn. ...
Read more: Why Non-voters Would Not Flock to Corbyn
SITE Intelligence has hit the headlines again. In the wake of yesterday’s shootings in Chattanooga Tennessee, we’ve found out that the shooter Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez had a blog which was ...
Read more: Who are the SITE Intelligence Group?
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Leadership contender. has published an ‘Equality Policy’ which commits to some interesting, straightforward, yet quite radical employment ...
Read more: Jeremy Corbyn’s – ‘Equality Policy’
This article was also published in Rob Francis's blog
In the 1960s and 1970s, the British government forcibly expelled around 2,000 residents of Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean, in order ...
Read more: Jeremy Corbyn and the Falklands
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Afshin Rattansi goes underground on anti-austerity, anti-Iraq War, Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn. The MP for Islington North discusses what ...
Read more: Jeremy Corbyn on the Labour Leadership
North Korea is now green, or at least that’s what the state propaganda machine would have you believe. According to Central TV, the secretive regime’s government controlled broadcaster, North ...
Read more: What's Kim up to?
I think it’s only right that a man who dons a Santa hat, heads to his local shopping centre and shakes a donation bucket for Syrian refugees, deserves a semblance of respect in the wake of the ...
Read more: Corbyn the Avenger
‘Out of school education settings: call for evidence.’ My submission to the consultation sent to the Department of Education …
Worrying times are before us. In future years we will look back at ...
Read more: Limits to freedom of religious belief and expression
If there’s something you feel strongly about, you should do something about it. I’ll often be heard telling people that. However, how you try and change things matter; so many turn to vigilantism ...
Read more: Our Interview With Dark Justice
The 2015 General Election was the election when housing came to the fore. In the run up to election and in the months following, it became increasingly clear that Britain is in the grip of a housing ...
Read more: Will Cameron's Starter Homes Solve The Housing Crisis?
The Government seem intent on drafting a British Bill of Rights. Obviously, such a Bill must include freedom of expression, freedom from discrimination etc. Indeed, it seems inevitable that all of ...
Read more: Let’s make a tenants ‘right to buy’ a human right
Wednesday’s debate between a wide assortment of GOP contenders left plenty to be desired. That is if you tuned in expecting a highbrow policy discussion. Policy proved off-topic for Trump et al, as ...
Read more: Thoughts on last week’s GOP debate
The Prime Minister David Cameron is to “get tough on immigration”. That, at least, is his claim. In reality, net immigration is at 318,000, of which a significant proportion derive from the free ...
Read more: Is the PM trying to ‘hoodwink’ the electorate?
In the wake of the general election, there has been a lot of talk about the ‘quiet Tory’. It makes sense; frankly admitting to voting Tory would be a social death sentence for some, and highly ...
Read more: What Really Happened to the Centre and the Left?
Who is Ben Carson? This the question perplexing unsuspecting politicos across the globe as the race for the GOP nomination heats up. World-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, and subject of his own ...
Read more: The man who would be king
Chuka Umunna formally withdrew from the race to become Labour leader earlier today. As odds on favourite to win, his withdrawal leaves Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham as the bookies choices to ...
Read more: Chuka Umunna withdraws from Labour leadership race
The Duke of Wellington said: “all the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know from what you do; that’s what I called ‘guessing ...
Read more: The Tory Gameplan and how to beat it
The British PM, David Cameron, has claimed that he has evidence that the Assad regime in Syria has used chemical weapons against its own people in breach of international law(1). He claims, such ...
Read more: Syria: “The solution has got to be law – not war.”
#WeNeedPR This article was originally published on @UKGE2020’s site.
You may say it is a campaign I am running.
I love numbers and yes they can be interpreted in any way you wish. The ...
Read more: Why we need PR
We may be weeks away from Remembrance Sunday, but a great deal has been written today about Jeremy Corbyn and a poppy. Will he wear red, or will he wear white? There is even talk about a Labour ...
Read more: Corbyn and the Poppies
A major problem for the Labour Party is the split evident between Scotland and England/Wales. Indeed, in the General Election it was clear that the anti-austerity message of the SNP had appeal to the ...
Read more: One ‘United Kingdom’
