What’s left of the Labour Left is up in arms over the nigh-on instant sacking of its failed leadership contender, Rebecca Long-Bailey – probably one of the most naive MPs…
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SILENCE OF THE SHEEP
24 June 2020Whatever happened to Labour Friends of Palestine? Self-declared Zionist and opponent of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign (BDS), Lisa Nandy, is to the surprise of many on the Left, the…
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Agony aunt column 1st June 2020 Auntie Maggie answers your problems from beyond the grave Dear Maggie I went on a long journey recently and took my wife and four…
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Women who made a difference – Millicent Fawcett
10 May 2020Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929) There is a saying that ‘comparisons are odious’. History can be viewed through different lenses, so comparing the contributions of Mary Seacole to those of Florence Nightingale…
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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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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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DIARY OF A BORIS
29 April 2020By Andrew Hunt What month is it…ahh yes April the 30th weather slightly damp.We are a father again. Well I’m bloody chuffed with thingy, being in labour for 3 days…
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Many people think of 1929 as the start of The Great Depression. Britain, as you would expect, was years ahead of those laggards on Wall Street. In 1925 our Chancellor…
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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.,…
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Ellen Wilkinson – Women who made a difference
22 April 2020I would like to look at a few women who made a real difference in political life and are often, if not ignored, relegated to ‘also rans’ for their contributions.…