Assange and the sex predators
21
Jun
Assange was falsely accused of sex assault and has been effectively detained for almost 3,000 days. Now two sex predators are running for President of the United States.
Category Archives: uk
Those who looked the other way
10
Jun
“Those who looked the other way, because they disliked Julian Assange, when the Department of Justice indicted him on a legal theory – that publishing clear public interest journalism could constitute multiple Espionage Act violations – should reconsider where that … Read More »
A Nationwide People’s HQ for Covid-19
11
May
Posted on behalf of Chik Collins and Peter Jones, as follow up to their earlier call No unsafe return to work! Stay at home! Unite across the UK to save lives and to work for a socially just reconstruction! In … Read More »
Covid-19 and the academic precariat
2
May
A few years ago I was on a UCU picket line for a one day strike at Sheffield Hallam University. I was now retired but remained a union member, and had shown up to do my bit. Picketers came and … Read More »
A People’s HQ for Covid-19
30
Apr
The financial resources government has made available for a pause in economic life show the viability of non-capitalist economic planning. But as in 2008, such largesse will come at huge cost to ordinary people unless the labour movement can show … Read More »
Subsidising large families
25
Apr
On the whole I eschew sarcasm in my writing. Less because it’s said to be the lowest form of wit; more because of the dangers of being taken at face value. Then again, never say never. This is an extract … Read More »
My April reads
25
Apr
This post also features on Off-Guardian For weeks my political focus has narrowed almost exclusively to Covid-19. It’s not that I haven’t noted other things. Increased Washington bellicosity over China, Iran and Venezuela has been hard to ignore, likewise the … Read More »
Murray on Assange: Beyond Words
8
Apr
See also Craig Murray’s four daily court reports from Belmarsh, beginning here. Today he writes: Yesterday Mark Sommers QC, the extremely erudite and bookish second counsel for Julian Assange in his extradition hearing, trembled with anger in court. Magistrate Vanessa … Read More »
Judge warns of “slide into police state”
30
Mar
Former supreme court justice Lord Sumption today slammed Derbyshire police for stopping people exercising in the Peak District. Warning that they risk plunging Britain into a “police state”, he told BBC Radio 4’s World at One that police have no … Read More »
Lancet Editor slates UK “failure to act”
22
Mar
The science has changed? No! After precious months of denialist inaction, the government has “at last understood what had really taken place in China”. Why should we care what Richard Horton thinks? He is not only a practising doctor but … Read More »