Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Could this be the end of the ongoing obscenity which is Boris Johnson? #PartyGate

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Just a quick blog today on #PartyGate - the ongoing scandal in which it has been revealed that during the covid lockdowns of 2020 a number o...
Thursday, 16 December 2021

Omicron and covid chaos - no end in sight

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In many ways, Covid is the perfect storm. An infectious virus that is more deadly than the flu. Easily transmissible, it can kill and cause ...
Wednesday, 10 November 2021

The aim of #Cop26 is not to save the planet but to save capitalism

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Welcome to the climate con which is CoP26 in Glasgow. Here, governments, NGOs, and corporates are supposed to be working together to limit g...
Thursday, 28 October 2021

As with Test & Trace so with the #ClimateCrisis

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Much has been said and written about the disastrous failure of the Tory government's Test & Trace system. It's not just the fact...
Monday, 16 August 2021

While the planet burns @RishiSunak fiddles with himself.

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Last year, before Covid struck, Australia was blitzed by  devastating bushfires . Over 30 people died, many had to be evacuated from beaches...
Tuesday, 6 July 2021

"Let the bodies pile high" #Covid19UK #Covidiots

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Yesterday Boris Johnson announced that from the 19th July the government was ending most covid restrictions. The key points are that the we...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021

As the planet burns governments and corporations are accelerating #ClimateChange

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Do you think of Canada as being a hot country? I never have, but as I type this some Canadians are experiencing record-breaking temperatures...
Friday, 21 May 2021

#FreePalestine

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After eleven days of horror and death, a 'ceasefire' has been declared in Israel. Of course, a ceasefire suggests that there are two...
Sunday, 11 April 2021

Someone just died

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On Friday 9th March Prince Phillip died. He was ninety-nine years old. I wanted to write a brief post about his death and the reaction to it...
Tuesday, 6 April 2021

Sarah Everard - a week we must all remember

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I'm posting this late, after the events, but I wanted to reflect on what happened in a terrible week in March 2021.  On Wednesday the 3r...
Monday, 1 February 2021

The way forward - buiding a democratic socialist party III

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This is the third in my series of posts about building a democratic socialist party.  In this post, I want to focus on policies.  What polic...
Tuesday, 19 January 2021

The way forward - buiding a democratic socialist party ll

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In my previous post  on this topic, I blogged about four key principles for setting up a democratic socialist party, which are: 1. horizonta...
Saturday, 16 January 2021

The way forward - building a democratic socialist party

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This is the first in a series of posts about creating a new democratic socialist party (although the ideas and principles could be used for ...
Tuesday, 12 January 2021

Why Labour isn't 20 points ahead

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When Jeremy Corbyn was LOTO we were told by centrists and much of the media that if only Labour had a 'moderate' leader the Party wo...
Tuesday, 24 November 2020

Let's face it - the Labour Party has never been fit for purpose.

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If you are a Labour Party member you will have a party card which states: "The Labour party is a democratic socialist party". But ...