So Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of Britain’s Exchequer, this week abolished the two child cap on benefits said by the Trussell Trust to be “the single biggest driver of child poverty”. Call me a curmudgeon but, while I welcome the move, … Read More »
In August I took part in one of the first organised acts of mass defiance against the Labour Government’s most Orwellian move to date. Palestine Action is a non violent direct action group protesting UK complicity in genocide by, inter … Read More »
The sun never set on it – at once both literal truth and vainglorious boast Caitlin’s post today took stock of differences between the British and US empires – direct rule colonialism versus indirect rule by an imperialism I define … Read More »
MANY OF US ASK OURSELVES, “WHAT WOULD I DO IF I WAS ALIVE DURING SLAVERY? OR THE JIM CROW SOUTH? OR APARTHEID? WHAT WOULD I DO IF MY COUNTRY WAS COMMITTING GENOCIDE?” THE ANSWER IS, YOU’RE DOING IT. RIGHT NOW Aaron … Read More »
Having overnighted in Bedford on that beautifully tree lined boulevard by the Great Ouse, I’m in Muswell Hill on Saturday just after eight for breakfast, coffee, then 134 to Mornington Crescent. From there it’s a stroll past Euston then down … Read More »
Yesterday, two years after Israel launched its pre-announced genocide … … five UK factories were targeted by Palestine Solidarity Campaign as making components for the F-35s used by Israel in its mass murderous ethnic cleansing of Gaza. I’d planned to … Read More »
On Wednesday I walked Big Moor with an old friend. No one was getting wed but a vastness of myrtle green and bracken brown spread before us, flecked with heather still purple under skies of rich brooding intensity, the air … Read More »
The Guardian, October 2 2025 Google Maps tells me Heaton Park Shul at Crumpsall, on the northern edge of Manchester, is a sixty-five minute drive from steel city house. One that would take me, via the Snake Pass, along mile … Read More »
From the perspective of Britain’s establishment, plus those of America and Israel, Sir Keir’s work is done. Aided by the Israel Lobby – plus levels of character assassination which saw not only the UK’s gutter media at their worst but … Read More »
Owen Jones is there to mop up leftwing Labour supporters to persuade them the Guardian is their friend, as he did even while it was helping destroy Jeremy Corbyn. Jonathan Freedland is there to reassure liberal Jews the Guardian is … Read More »