Investigative journalism? A look back to when words truly were weapons
AS we today complain, rightly so, of the dearth of good journalists in the mainstream media, I find myself re-reading Paul Foot’s ‘Words as Weapons’, and, for those who may…
Writing From the Left, Changing the Conversation
AS we today complain, rightly so, of the dearth of good journalists in the mainstream media, I find myself re-reading Paul Foot’s ‘Words as Weapons’, and, for those who may…
On December 18, Linnell was given a grand funeral. A huge procession of socialists, radicals, feminists, Irish Republicans and working people walked from the West End of London to the…
ON Saturday a gunman in Buffalo, New York killed ten people and injured three more in what has been described as a racially motivated killing. 18-year-old Payton Gendron, drove from…
IT is worrying that two countries with a long history of wartime neutrality – Finland and Sweden – could apply for NATO membership within days. This is of course in…
IN what must have come as a shock to Labour over the weekend, Lutfur Rahman of the Aspire Party won the mayoral election for Tower Hamlets, defeating the incumbent, John…
PALESTINIANS are outraged again after warning last week against allowing Israeli settlers to enter al-Aqsa Mosque, yet hundreds of settlers, accompanied by Israeli security forces, stormed the mosque in occupied…
ALMOST everyone in the UK – and abroad – knows that Boris Johnson lies; we’ve become so accustomed to it that a more shocking headline might read ‘Boris Johnson caught…
ONLY the uninformed can now be unaccustomed to Keir Starmer changing the goalposts – or indeed, simply changing positions depending which way the mood of the public, as portrayed in…
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein IT is Earth Day today, the 52nd such day in fact, the first being held on April…
UNFORTUNATELY for all those involved, the war in Ukraine is showing no signs of de-escalation. Rather, yesterday we saw Russian forces bombarding several Ukrainian cities including Lviv in the west.…