July 15, 2025

Child Poverty is a Political Choice

On Monday, on the front page of his newspaper, we read that the recent revisions to the government’s planned cuts to personal independence payments (pip) will […]
April 25, 2025

Blind Faith That Labour Will do the Right Thing is unforgivably Naive

Labour came to power nine months ago. In that time, they’ve cut foreign aid, gone hard on asylum seekers and are now turning on benefits recipients’ […]
December 15, 2024

Jeremy Clarkson’s greed makes the perfect case for taxes

Gawd, the sound and fury at the farmers’ march against inheritance tax, which according to BBC fact checkers, will affect only around 500 farms with a […]
June 10, 2020

Priti Patel Pushes the Hostile Environment

When Priti Patel was appointed home secretary, innumerable Britons were scandalized. She’d been sacked by Theresa May for breaking rules of office. She’d been overpromoted just […]
October 19, 2019

The Far Right Threat

Do you know who David Parnham is? You should. He is a white supremacist who sent fake anthrax to the Queen, two Bishops, Theresa May when […]
October 19, 2019

How Six Men Destroyed the UK’s Old Parliamentary System

This week Boris Johnson – our very own Julius Caesar- has really got going. He is in a flurry, in a mad hurry to get out […]
October 19, 2019

Leftie Monarchists

Leftie Monarchists Not our Olivia Colman, not her too. She, who the supercilious High Tory Charles Moore disdains for her ‘distinctly working class face’, she, who […]
May 8, 2019

Democrats, your nation needs you

Last week I tweeted: “The nation is ungovernable. A stable old democracy is being demolished by populist politicians. It’s worse than an army coup… What will […]
April 6, 2017

White and Black Working Classes

  Not a week goes by without some right wing British politician or pundit bewailing the lot of the ‘left behind’ white working classes. Most of […]