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…
With The Miners
Thatcher’s government pulled out all the stops to beat the miners, and the police were drafted in from all over the country to the front line, which was south Derbyshire…
Review: “Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain” by Phil Burton-Cartledge.
This newly-published book is a very impressive critique of the Conservatives, stretching across 42 years, from the start of the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, in 1979, to the continued failure…
The Socialist Tradition: it’s a family affair.
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…