The Thick of It
When the Prime Minister announced that West Midlands police were ‘wrong’ to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending the Aston Villa Europa Cup match on…
Category: Current Affairs
Provocations and ‘Picking Quarrels’ – Green Party Leaders Must Wise Up
Brighton’s Green MP Siân Berry posted a strange message on X during the massive feminist gathering at the Brighton Centre on the sea front on…
Without Her Knowledge: The Politics Of The Gaze
More than 30,000 pictures and videos were taken by Dominique Pelicot of his wife, middle aged French woman Gisele Pelicot, without her clothes on, without…
Out and Out Betrayal
Bravo Ruth Davidson – the first openly gay political party leader in the UK, former leader of the Scottish Tories, former Member of the Scottish…
Sir Keir: the Honourable Gentleman who is for turning
Perhaps Sir Keir Starmer ‘misspoke’, perhaps he forgot or Trump-like didn’t really know what his 2024 election manifesto did and didn’t pledge, when he decided…
Letter to the Working Class Movement Library
Dear Trustees, I’m writing to you to support the Library’s invitation to Julie Bindel to speak about being a young working class lesbian. It was…
Corbynism
What would it take for the biggest political party in Western Europe to be accorded a bit of respect? Will the mass media reports from…
TRANS/formations
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, transgender debates have got — if not worse exactly, then — nastier. The description ’transphobic’ has been thrown…
Leon Brittan — who needs an apology now?
Tory grandees, former ministers and yesterday’s men queue up to denounce the police for investigating sexual abuse allegations against members of the Tory establishment. They…
Hilary Benn – Thinking About War
The Parliamentary debate on bombing IS/Daesh in Syria was brought to an intense and rousing conclusion by Hilary Benn, Shadow Foreign Secretary. It was Benn…