Author: Mike Stanton

The compensation culture is alive and well, if you are a capitalist. Sky News reported last night that fossil fuel companies are suing governments around the world because action on…

Next month the Liverpool Arena and Conference Centre is due to host the AOC Europe annual Electronic Warfare Europe convention despite fierce opposition in the city. Twenty MPs including five…

Death and Taxes are supposed to be the only things we can rely on. To that we can now add government deception, lies and broken promises. Broken Promises Government proposals…

I wrote A tale of of two industries in July and was reminded of it by a tweet the other day in response to the row about raising NI payments…

Johnson’s broken promise Who should pay for social care is one of the key questions facing political parties in the run up to the UK party conference season. It is…

Father and Son, my post on my family’s socialist tradition referred to my time as a docker. I worked as a registered dockworker on Grimsby and Immingham Docks from 1973…

Afghanistan was betrayed by Britain and the USA because they knew their withdrawal would hand it back to the Taliban. And now, to hide their shame, the blame game has…

Yesterday’s news was dominated by one story. Afghanistan. As Twenty Years of Purgatory comes to an end the country once more descends into Hell. The government mishandled the whole withdrawal/evacuation…

SPIKED! At 5.15pm on Friday 4 October 2019 Peter Oborne learned that the copy for his regular Saturday column in the Daily Mail had been declined. Could he write another…

If you listen to some of the self-proclaimed pundits and experts in the “quality” papers and on the heavyweight political chat shows on a Sunday morning there is an underlying…