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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Labour is “alarmed at Covid-19 laws being passed without vote”. And so they bloody well should be – the potential for abusing the draconian powers now passed into law is immense. There are those who say covid-19 is overegged. Some … Read More »
See also: Varoufakis on Covid-19 … Klein on Covid-19 The corona virus has cast a light on every aspect of British society: the economic relations, the class inequalities, migration, capitalism, big pharma. Everything i seen in a new light and … Read More »