Do you remember that series from the US? Was it science fiction? Should the word ‘surreal’ be used? Who played the part of The Log Lady in New Labour? A…
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CLAUSE FOUR AGAIN
13 April 2020CLAUSE FOUR “To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the…
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MY DREAM OF SOCIALISM
13 April 2020Self-isolation became collective isolation. We assembled in a hotel to search for the meaning of SOCIALISM. I was supposed to be in charge but very much aware that behind me…
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DO NOT RESUSCITATE THIS GOVERNMENT.
13 April 2020Today is the anniversary of the birth of the Empress Matilda or Maude, mother of Henry II. Depending which side you favour in that particular civil war she might be…
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NOT DOING THE GOVERNMENTAL IRONING
13 April 2020Cameron is using Johnson’s current medical condition in order, just like Blair, to get back on the stage. He now says positive things about his character with a touch of…
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WE HAVE LOST CORBYN AND NOW WE HAVE LOST SANDERS
13 April 2020They were two people who were giving us the vocabulary for discussing what a better society might look like. We are in desperate need of such a vocabulary. In the…
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Remember Chilcot?
13 April 2020He was the undisputed winner of the inquiries slow bicycle race. In the last few years there have been a number of inquiries and reports that we have yet to…
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Caligula’s horse, Emperor of the USA
13 April 2020I always wanted to admire FDR’s New Deal. It had similarities with the Liberal Yellow Book of 1928 and the Liberal Party Manifesto for the 1929 general election. Both were…
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A SOCIALIST CONVERT?
13 April 2020BJ the socialist convert? The prime minister who has just discovered empathy and thankfulness? Certainly the virus affected one part of him: his memory of selling off so much of…
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THE THOUGHTS OF CAMPBELL, CHAIRMAN SPIN
6 April 2020“Now where did I put that Dossier? Oh there it is, filed under ‘Dodgy’. “I suppose I shall have to spruce it up a bit for old Keir. “Something that…