Self-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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Today 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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Cameron 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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They 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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In casual discussion of social values (politics in other words) I often find that if I say that we are all Marxists in response I see a look of horror.…
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I am aware that many people disagree with me about the way in which, today, we should be using the notions of possitivity and negativity. In my view to complain…
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He 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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I 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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BJ 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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“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…