* * * In the first and more specific of two reminders – lest tears fog up our memory – Fire Brigades Union General Secretary Matt Wrack points out that: Many of the underlying issues at Grenfell were due to … Read More »
Sweden’s Deputy Director of Public Prosecution, Eva-Marie Persson, telling a May 13 press conference Sweden is to seek extradition Confused about Assange? You’re meant to be. That’s how dirty tricks work: witness the tobacco lobby’s sowing of doubt on the … Read More »
Dear Julian Thank you for your courage. It shames me as a socialist that so many whose leftist views should have had them backing you, in gratitude for the truths you brought us and to demand an end to the … Read More »
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This post also features in OffGuardian Questions, questions, questions … Did you know the Swedish Chief Prosecutor initially handling the allegations of rape against Julian Assange found no case to answer? Are you aware she was succeeded by Marianne Ny, … Read More »
I’ve written here, here, here and here on his many betrayals by the liberal establishment. Now the seige of Julian Assange is over. Not a month after an IMF approved $4.2bn loan to Ecuador, policemen paid for by your taxes … Read More »
This post also features in OffGuardian Remember this man? It’s close to three years ago he split the delightfully small Anyone-But-Corbyn vote when Angela Eagle, too lacking in self awareness to see she was just a stalking horse, made her … Read More »
Most of my friends are baby boomers like me. As a rule we dislike capitalism but don’t dislike it enough. Faintly pink, or fire engine red, we too often fail to see – though the pieces are there for all … Read More »
Had there been a scintilla of residual doubt on the matter, and there wasn’t, Andrew Rawnsley’s references in today’s Guardian Opinion to ‘Labour moderates’ would have erased it. That piece – Labour’s balance of terror has shifted. Now Corbynites have … Read More »