Writing From the Left, Changing the Conversation
The Labour right-wing, having now gained lasting control of Labour, are losing voters because theirs is essentially a negative offering. Their alleged pragmatism, in our hyped-up age, feels flat, uninspiring,…
Long time the Tories have been here. Let’s vote them out! Them and their gout! And not allow them anywhere near.
This May’s local election is probably the most important in our lifetime..Today we see rents, service charges and council tax all going up. At a time when it's clear many…
Populists pretend complex problems have simple answers. They like things so simple they become stupid. And they would do, wouldn’t they? ‘Stupid’ is easy to handle.
How can autism be political? It is a medical condition, isn’t it? Maybe and maybe not. But who am I to talk? Well, I used to teach autistic kids. My…
The left have some real lessons to learn about campaigning. Let’s go back to 2015 to a time after Ed Milliband’s Labour’s disastrous general election loss to the Tories. Owen…
Lambast by Michael Gurner, aka The Sixty Second Scribe, is poetry for our time. Michael is best known to readers of Critical Mass for the short videos we publish of…
Hope helps to create a world where the things you hope for become possible. Hope means that if even a fraction of an opportunity comes up, you’ll be prepared to…
The recent tragic murder of David Amess, the MP for Southend West, has led to a media splurge of handwringing about bullying and abuse on social media and violence in…
We’re all in this together. Make your country great again. This is the will of the people. Don’t trust ‘experts’. Activists are imposters. It’s propaganda.
