I am in many ways a fully paid up member of the liberal middle classes, even if I appear to have gone off the rails of late. Ours is an extreme world. How else describe one of such staggering and … Read More »
this post also features in OffGuardian For years I’ve called myself a peg-on-nose Remainer. While many fellow Remainers strike me as naive, deluded on the nature of the EU and frequently contemptuous to boot, my bottom line is that … Read More »
the first part of this post features on offguardian I enjoy schadenfreude as much as the next guy and for the millions of us who detest Boris, last night brought the stuff in spades. I was quite taken by Jeremy … Read More »
. Analogies are by definition imperfect but humour me. Imagine, if you will, trying to make sense of the finer points or even the elementary principles of astronomy when you and all around you – as well as those who … Read More »
In my nineteen sixties mid teens, when normal lads were out on the street playing togger and beginning to get interested in girls, I was reading such uplifting works as The Trial of Steven Truscot, about a Canadian fifteen year … Read More »
… is pursuing class war. CounterFire today: Boris Johnson’s expected stint as British prime minister began with a brutal cull of those within his own party who dared to oppose him. They have been replaced by a cabinet of horrors … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian With so many brown skinned men, women and children in the Middle East maimed, bereaved or having their lives terminated by the high tech and highly profitable products of America’s military industrial complex, it’s … Read More »
Since becoming Labour Deputy Leader in September 2015, Tom has had just shy of £97,000 from two Israel lobbyists, Trevor Chinn and David Garrard, and from Labour Friends of Israel. On Facebook I came across the list below, taken from … Read More »
[ezcol_1half]Perhaps you gave, as I did, that Panorama special – yes, that one – a miss. Or maybe, a glutton for torture, you actually watched it – in which case you’ll be needing professional help. Here, with his habitually unruffled … Read More »