Saturday, 27 May 2023

How the right win, and how we fight back

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When most people vote, it's not a rational decision, it's an emotional one. People vote with their hearts - not their heads. Most vo...
Monday, 13 February 2023

Only a dozen years of #Tory government and the UK is becoming a failed state

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I've just been reading this editorial  article in the Guardian about the horror that is happening in Lebanon. The ruling class - the bu...
Thursday, 5 January 2023

My review of 2022

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Another annus horribilis. Another year of Tory disaster - lies, corruption, tax dodging, public sector destruction, swimming in sewage, and ...
Wednesday, 21 December 2022

Productivity is tyranny

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Today I was listening to Helen Lewis's programme  about gurus -  The New Gurus - on BBC Sounds. The show was about productivity gurus. H...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022

Merry Yule!

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What does Xmas mean to me? In a word nothing. I loved Xmas when I was a child. I was lucky enough to have a loving family and a Mum who was ...
Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Privatisation is theft!

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In 1840 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon famously said, " Property is theft ". He was right. The worst event in human history occurred when ...
Tuesday, 1 November 2022

In a rapidly worsening climate emergency solidarity and mutual aid are key.

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CoP27 , taking place this year in Egypt, is now on the horizon. Our new PM Rishi Sunak has said he won't attend. This is shocking but no...
Monday, 24 October 2022

Truss has gone but the #Tory horror show continues apace.

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What a week! What another grim week! After the Trussonomics mini-budget fiasco, the departure of chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, and the 'res...
Wednesday, 21 September 2022

The most important event in world history

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What is history anyway? It's a human creation for sure, stories of happenings from our collective past. Given how old the Earth is our r...
Monday, 12 September 2022

Another day, another death.

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The MSM has lost interest in the pandemic, and coverage is poor. Last time I checked about a month ago, deaths from Covid were about 210,000...
Thursday, 25 August 2022

Solidarity and mutual aid are key for a better future for all of us.

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In this blog, I’ve stressed the importance of solidarity, not charity and working at the grassroots to build community wellbeing, provide wo...
Tuesday, 23 August 2022

The #Tories are flushing the UK down the toilet.

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I haven't posted on here for a while partly because things are so dystopian and reading the news at the moment is hard work. The situati...
Monday, 4 July 2022

Western culture is toxic and it damages all of our lives

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Firstly, I want to start with a disclaimer. This is a short post. But this topic could easily be the subject of a long essay or even a book,...
Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Rail strike: Mick Lynch shreds the MSM hacks

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Yesterday, 21st June, was the summer solstice. It was also Mick Lynch day. Lynch, the general secretary of the RMT was on the picket line wi...

Rail Strike: The Government Can Afford Decent Public Sector Pay Rises

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Members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) are taking strike action over pay, conditions at work, and propo...