Incredibly disappointing to see the Labour government fail in its primary responsibility to lift children out of poverty. The idea that we cannot afford to do so is ludicrous. Scrapping the policy would cost £1.3 billion. A 1% tax on … Read More »
Thanks once again to reader Dave Hansell for this. I’ve already posted twice on last week’s “tepid” Labour win under Keir Starmer on fewer votes than in 2019 and 2017 under Jeremy Corbyn. In Britain’s rulers anoint Starmer’s Labour I … Read More »
Let me start with today’s UK headlines as sampled from, respectively, tabloid, middlebrow and elite organs. As expected, and as noted the day before yesterday: Britain [has] with little enthusiasm – and in very much lower numbers, proportionally speaking, than … Read More »
The rentier nature of British capital is revealed by this IPPR report: “Corporate investment has fallen below the rate of depreciation – meaning that our capital stock is falling – and investment in research and development (R&D) is lower than in our … Read More »
Two days ago I wrote of … …. mealymouthed and regally ignorant pomposity from a man of whom, within narrow limits and paired with caveats and disclaimers, I often write approvingly … … while further unflattering descriptions were added by … Read More »
The Palestine March yesterday, June 1st, was Sheffield’s largest since October 7. We set off at 13:00 from the statue of Anti Corn Law poet Ebenezer Elliot, in the city’s Weston Park, on a two mile route that took in … Read More »
Guardian writer Duncan Campbell yesterday penned a decent but predictably timid and flawed response to the day’s High Court ruling. Here, with my comments, is what he wrote. The case against Julian Assange has been a cruel folly. His right … Read More »
When, around six-thirty pm on March 27, I posted Maria Zhakarova’s tweeted response (below) to the Julian ruling, I knew her only through her media statements as Kremlin spokeswoman – she does not care for “spokesperson” – at the Foreign … Read More »
Yesterday I visited my friend and steel city reader, Dave Hansell, a denizen of Stocksbridge so almost a Sheffielder. Dave, who knows the Labour Party inside out, has a thousand tales to tell of dirty tricks and flat out incompetence … Read More »
Two posts back I called him the “silver-tongued bruiser o’ Dundee”. Here, on a late night show ten years before being returned as the Right Honourable Member for Rochdale, he responds to the audience member – and political editor – … Read More »