My first passport stated that I am a subject. My current one states in small print near the back that I am a citizen. I am not a citizen. I…
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Humanity or Inhumanity?
3 May 2020When I started out, like so many others I guess, I sorted of gradually internalised what my parents told me was right and what they told me was wrong. Dead…
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Corona Virus: Fear V reality
30 April 2020Over the last five weeks we have seen an unprecedented attack on our most basic freedoms and human rights in the UK. Our freedom of movement, to work, buy and…
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WHAT IS SOCIALISM?
30 April 2020Why, it is attending meetings of course. Is there anything more important than a lengthy debate about a comrade’s possible transgression of the Rule Book? It is also a lifelong…
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PITCAIRN ISLAND FOR CORBYN?
30 April 2020Today is the anniversary of the MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. The year was 1789. Something else happened a few days later in France. As we go through turbulent times does…
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Women who made a difference – Nancy Wake
30 April 2020Le Souris Blanche (Nancy Wake) Having had my arm twisted to do another article in the series I remembered a very brave woman, Nancy Wake. I found out about her…
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Labour Members Leave The Party After Corbyn
26 April 2020With many dedicated Labour members struggling to remain paid members after the election of Keir Starmer as the new leader ( I have spoken to many of them), I submit…
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BACK TO NORMAL
26 April 2020Might we declare a moratorium on the phrase ‘Back to Normal’?Is your ‘normal’ remotely like that of (Sir, for the moment) Richard Branson? Or David Cameron? Or Tony Blair? Perhaps…
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BLINDFOLD CO-ORDINATION
22 April 2020Our prime minister failed to chair not one but five emergency meetings, known as COBRA. The letters sort of stand for Cabinet Office Meeting Rooms In fact they are cross…
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There are only two key questions.
22 April 20201. How do we get out of the mess? And 2. In what kind of society do we wish to live afterwards? I have little idea how we manage 1.,…