Capitalism Creates Poverty

There's been a lot of talk about zero carbon recently. Extinction Rebellion is demanding the UK moves to zero carbon by 2025. The govern...

After the recent Committee on Climate Change report on the UK moving to zero carbon by 2050, I watched news reports on the BBC and ITV. Bot...

I think Chris Williamson is working hard for a Labour government. I like what he is doing touring the UK. I don't believe he's a rac...

Revolution is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as: a sudden, radical, or complete change and; activity or movement designed t...

Readers of this blog will know that one of the dominant themes is economic democracy - by that, I mean businesses owned and controlled by th...

As we approach March 29th and the Brexit clock ticks down a group of Labour, Lib Dem, Conservative and Green politicians are still banging o...

What is a centrist? I looked up several definitions and the common view appears to be - a person who has moderate political views . This isn...

Brexit, even hard Brexit, is trivial compared to the climate crisis we are facing. There, I've said it. Why? Because the recent report I...

Ok, ok, I know I nicked that post title from someone famous - or infamous if you prefer. But this post is about what the left needs to do in...

Almost every day we see articles in the media about the  lack of money governments have, and how things like nationalisation of the railway...

Since the exposure of Harvey Weinstein as a serial sexual abuser and the #MeToo campaign on Twitter, there have been many other exposures ...

I voted to remain. I have lots of things I don't like about the EU but, for me, the right thing to do was remain and reform. I wrote a ...

Once you pass the big six-o you can no longer pretend to be young. In your fifties, you can just about get away with thinking you could go c...

There's a lot of talk in the media nowadays about driverless cars. This, apparently is the future. As someone who has passed middle age...

On Monday 2 October my political partner in crime, Peter Allen, and I went to see John McDonnell at Manchester Cathedral talking with Gary ...