Yesterday a thirty-something hearing specialist at my local NHS Clinic told me, after peering into my left ear through some optical wizardry, that she expects the NHS to go “in my lifetime”. Her reasoning, and command of the facts, were … Read More »
One of these two is a self confessed liar – and it’s not the one on the left. The abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours … We didn’t … Read More »
Last night I watched for the second time an episode of Accused, the 2010 series from the pen of Jimmy McGovern, now on Netflix. Here’s an abridged Wiki synopsis of Frankie’s Story: Frankie and Peter join the army to get … Read More »
Still from Cathy Come Home, 1966 Defend Democracy Press two days ago: Zionism has taken control of the British Labour Party. And it is destroying it! Left erupts in anger after Starmer’s Labour expels iconic film director Ken Loach Aug. … Read More »
(Craig is now himself doing time after a perverse judgment by Scottish judge Lady Dorrian.) Baraitser’s January ruling, denying the US extradition request, was the right outcome for all the wrong reasons. The request was denied not because patently political, … Read More »
Tax specialist and modern monetary theorist Richard Murphy is no Trotskyist. But as I said in a recent post he has a way of formulating demands which (a) meet the needs of the hour and (b) are not on the … Read More »
I’ve been asked by Labour Party contacts in Sheffield to publicise its response to a “Statement of Support for Trans and Non Binary People” sent to Sheffield CLP branches after the election of the Hallam Women’s Officer, a known Gender … Read More »
I admire economist, tax specialist and Modern Monetary Theorist Richard Murphy. This despite my deep suspicions of MMT (often derided as “magic money tree” not only by Chicago School, Thatcherite, Reaganomic and other stripes of neoliberalism but by a Marxism … Read More »
Two days ago – and two after Tuesday’s sentencing in Virginia, USA, of whistle-blower Daniel Hale – the UK Supreme Court denied Craig Murray leave to appeal his sentencing on May 11 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Craig will now start his … Read More »