COPOUT26
COP26 will open today. The UK has the presidency of the event. The Prime Minister has spoken about the collapse of the Roman Empire as analogous to the situation faced…
Writing From the Left, Building The Resistance
COP26 will open today. The UK has the presidency of the event. The Prime Minister has spoken about the collapse of the Roman Empire as analogous to the situation faced…
Thursday’s news item on the Budget was written before the experts had been able to read the small print. So today I go back to the Budget to scratch beneath…
HALLOWEEN is upon us and I cannot imagine much more frightening than to see creepy little Lisa Nandy and the Prince of Darkness himself, Peter Mandelson, on my doorstep. Even…
Which Side Are You On? is a great song about class struggle. It came out of a miners’ strike in Kentucky during the Depression. It’s an easy question. On one…
To some, socialism is a dirty word. Margaret Thatcher saw to that. I was born in Thatcher’s Britain. Everything was about the suits in the city and people were buying…
Not long ago I shared someone’s post on Twitter about the untold suffering in Yemen showing a picture of a starving child. I asked why we seem to turn our…
GROWING CONCRETE Now is the time to be preparing the garden for next spring’s crop of concrete. You have to treat this natural resource very carefully and dig down to…
WHILE it is reported that the US are actively whipping up support for protests against the Cuban government, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, has stated the protests are illegal and will…
When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own she was speaking of women’s emancipation from men, and she was speaking of a physical room, but nowadays it is both…
When we find ourselves in the role of “leader”, how do we justify our control over others?