Clik here to view.
Indyref: A tale of two countries
The surrealist remake of “Birds of a Feather” didn’t cut much mustard with BBC4 executives… This independence thing is at serious risk of leaving a nasty aftertaste in the mouth. I went to Tesco at...
View ArticleAgainst Feminism
Coming out the other side of a criss The dust is beginning to settle regarding one of the key intellectual ruptures of our epoch – the ‘Crisis of Marxism’. There are a number of strands to the debates...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Politics of Energy
An article in the Guardian today quotes the boss of Npower, Paul Massara, blaming Labour’s election policy of a price freeze as the reason why the company won’t pass reductions in wholesale gas prices...
View ArticleBlair & ISIS — two sides of the same coin
Why has no British journalist writing in the mainstream press yet pointed out that ISIS is a creation of Tony Blair? Amid the agonising about British ISIS-affiliated Muslims decapitating their...
View ArticleIsrael and Palestine – what should Israel do?
Let’s be clear here, and it is about time that truth were spoken with bluntness to the people of Israel.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blurred Lines: How the Front National has usurped the language of the left
The European election results in France last month sent a sharp, icy chill of horror down the spine of EU technocrats in Brussels and Strasbourg. Sheltered and insulated to a certain extent by the EU...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Labour’s 2015 Manifesto – What should be in it?
Housing obviously, not least give buy-to-let landlords a kick. Some of them achieve an annual return of 16 percent. Rail: as mentioned in another thread, millions of commuters, packed into shoddy...
View ArticleAgainst Democracy and Morality
Recently I wrote a post where I experimented with a different style of writing. It was highly sarcastic and floated between satire and serious criticism. I am not convinced this experiment worked (but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Speaking with Ghosts: Morality, Ideology, Politics
In the unfashionable world of theory it is fashionable to talk of ideology as that which structures our reality rather than that which masks ‘True’ reality. As we have broken from Marx and Marxism so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Contesting Common Sense: Stuart Hall’s Challenge to the Left
The death of Stuart Hall (cultural theorist and political philosopher), much like his life and work, has got me thinking.We live in an age where to look beyond the appearance of things is to be...
View ArticleGove: brasso-necked, pob-faced waste of carbon
It is something of a testament to how closely aligned Michael Gove is to the core of Conservative ideology that he’s still in his post. He exudes a repulsive combination of ineptitude and arrogance –...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yanukovych clings on by his fingernails
As the mood on the Kiev barricades reaches fever pitch, things are looking bleak for Victor Yanukovych. In a move that’s been taken as a sign of weakness by the opposition protesters, Yanukovych made...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Workplace Democracy: The Great Debate
“No matter who you are or how high you go, there’s always a wanker boss.” Tommy Butler – The Great Train Robbery: A Copper’s Tale That line will have resonated with a good number of people who caught...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The NSA & Richard Branson
Virgin Intelligence: what could possibly go wrong? Why not abolish internet service providers, Facebook, Google, Yahoo etc and let the National Security Agency (NSA) run the internet? That way the NSA...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is the Pope a Marxist?
Appalling news from the Vatican. An Argentinian Marxist has got control of the City State. Hardly a day goes by without “Pope” Francis attacking the super-rich. How dare he? Hasn’t he read his Bible?...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Return To Socialist Roots?
Michael Foot and Tony Benn ponder the dilemmas of the early 1980s In my late teenage years 30 years ago – when I first became politically active, interested, and knowledgeable, and started reading...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Growth? You won’t see any of it
The present “growth” of minimal statistical significance is based largely on a dangerous return to house-price speculation in conjunction with individuals and families eating into savings to make...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Housing: stripping the poor of money & power
A few years ago our local Labour council came up with the idea of “stock transfer” i.e. transferring our remaining council housing out of council ownership and control and giving it to a newly formed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Working for a UK Supermarket
As someone who works as a checkout assistant for a large supermarket, I thought I would write an account of what it can be like. I do actually enjoy my job, and to be fair most of the managers and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Police State UK: Lines in the Sand
Two shocking stories that highlight the extent to which the UK has become a police state emerged this week. The first was the detention without cause or suspicion of David Mirranda at Heathrow...
View Article
![ONEW – KAKERA -Unmei no Piece- – EP [iTunes Plus M4A]](http://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music221/v4/d0/fb/86/d0fb86a5-ba60-4bea-41fb-7f54c125f518/VEATP-45908.jpg/296x296bb.webp)
/pic9814888.png)
