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Weighing in on a No Fly Zone
Having been absent from the blogosphere for quite some time now (nor reading any articles, except the increasingly rare Splinty) I haven’t been party to the line-drawing and hissy fitting between the...
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Dissecting debate, sane Tories and “No Platform”
Since I’m on leave, I made the mistake of wading into the usual storm in a teacup about who-interrupted-what-Tory-twunt’s-right-to-speak. This time it’s random activists with David Willetts at a...
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Fuck you, Ed Balls
Both sides should “give ground”, says Mr Ed Balls (via the BBC), to avert Wednesday’s “hugely disruptive” strike. He says “the government has got to give some ground, so have the unions”. What does...
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After November 30th – seize control!
This is not a far left rant intimating that, in the aftermath of some successful industrial action, we’re ready to seize control of the country. We’ve achieved a little. Paul is right when he suggests...
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My deeply disturbing thesis; don’t attack Syria
I note with grim bemusement some of the opinions coming out of this blog in recent weeks as regards potential operations in Syria, and the rather shocking attitude of Carl to people he believes hold...
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Galloway and Bradford West
As disappointing as it may be to some long-time blogofriends, who really despise him, I am resolutely indifferent to George Galloway. This might be seen as some political lapse on my part. After all,...
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Lord Bell and why lobbyists really aren’t to blame
I tend not to take much interest in paid lobbyists, regarding them as verminous scum. Still, when people I talk to on stalls mention something, I take an interest and it just so happened yesterday that...
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Teachers say: all systems go to fight Tory cuts
This government must be broken in two by concerted, massive and uncompromising strike action. Anyone who says differently is a do-nothing, who wants to stand around bloviating instead of actually...
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The BNP’s defeat and Labour’s victory
Carl on this blog has just today touted his idea that the BNP are finished, backing it up with a Martin Goodman article from the Guardian site about the BNP getting pretty much annihilated at the May...
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Requiem for a Blog
I began blogging on Labour Members’ Net in the spring of 2007. At first it was a way for me to relieve the interminable boredom of writing and researching essays for my postgrad degree. I hadn’t yet...
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Vote Corbyn
The words of the Red Flag, recalling the old class divide of cloth caps versus bowler hats and cravats might seem outdated – but I apply them to this blog. Having dispensed with notions of class, and...
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De-legitimising the leadership contest
Simon Danczuk has joined NOLSie puke John Mann, veteran committee waffler Barry Sheerman and Graham Stringer in calling for the suspension and re-running of the Labour leadership campaign. Hands up who...
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600,000 sign up to vote for Corbyn
The Mirror is reporting that 600,000 people have signed up as affiliated supporters of the Labour Party. I’m going to go out on a limb to suggest they’re not joining to vote for Liz fucking Kendall....
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Shock news: Toynbee still utterly useless
“Stop reading the Guardian, it rots your brain almost as much as writing for it.” This is surely the only possible message from Toynbee’s latest cretinous excretion in today’s Guardian, where she casts...
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Journo tells us why Corbyn is popular…
And neatly illustrates why media types are so disconnected from reality. He also identifies clearly why it’s a bullshit argument to consider supporting anyone else – they aren’t planning to fix the...
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Corbyn’s ten point plan
Concrete, definitive stuff – compared to the amorphous anything-for-power bullshit of the other three candidates: 1.Growth not austerity – with a national investment bank to help create tomorrow’s jobs...
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Corbyn and mandatory reselection
A report at the Staggers indicates that Corbyn has decided not to seek to reintroduce mandatory re-selection for MPs, meaning that many Blairite MPs will feel that bit more sure of themselves*. With...
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Kirkby 43 years on – 14 months worth remembering
Museum of Liverpool This morning when I woke up, I came across an article in the Liverpool Echo about the Kirkby rent strike. There’s a video on that page as well, which explains succinctly the...
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