Maxxing out the state credit card
This is a year of anniversaries – 100 years since the General Strike, 90 years since anti-fascist workers blocked Cable Street against Oswald Mosley’s Black… Read More »Maxxing out the state credit card
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Paul Feldman
Burnham’s devolution constitution is no solution
Andy Burnham believes there is a case for creating a written constitution. Time for a citizens’ convention to decide its content.
Trust me, I’m Andy
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one prime minister may be regarded as misfortunate but to lose six in ten years looks like carelessness. While… Read More »Trust me, I’m Andy
From loveless landslide to loveless defeat
If anyone needed further proof that the mainstream political system has collapsed, they need look no further than the May 7 elections and Labour’s historic… Read More »From loveless landslide to loveless defeat
Four years after Russia’s invasion: Stand by Ukraine
The Real Democracy Movement salutes the heroic struggles of the Ukrainian people in their fight against the brutal, unprovoked invasion by Russian forces four years ago.
Venezuela: the old world order falls apart
The abject refusal of prime minister Keir Starmer to offer even the mildest of criticism of the unprovoked attack on Venezuela by US special forces, confirms the rapid descent into international lawlessness, where might is right and anything goes.
A budget that leads straight to Farage
If Labour under Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves was actually planning to hand over political power to the populist right in the shape of Nigel Farage at the next election, it couldn’t have done a better job than deliver a budget that inspires no one and will eventually leave many worse off.
A year of hard Labour
A year ago, Keir Starmer won what became known as a ‘loveless landslide’. Labour achieved a massive overall majority on an historically low turn-out of… Read More »A year of hard Labour
Stop Farage by taking the Assemblies road to people’s power
Reform’s humiliation of Labour and the Tories is the clearest indication that the UK’s political system is in a state of disintegration.
Starmer’s own project chainsaw
The Starmer government’s attacks on older people, the disabled, environmental protection and public services are inspired by Trump.
Trump’s coup is watershed moment
In a matter of weeks, “disloyal” officials from the government machine have been sacked while Trump is remaking the federal state in his image. This is a coup.
System crisis pandemic spreading fast
A new pandemic is spreading at a rapid rate. It’s nothing to do with the flu or Covid. This virus is about political system failure.
Trump’s path to dictatorship
Dictatorship makes its appearance in all sorts of guises, even through the ballot box, as Americans are likely to find out sooner rather than later.… Read More »Trump’s path to dictatorship
A government without politics
If you require any further proof that the political system is broken, you need look no further than the performance of the Labour government since it won the July general election.
Uncertain and dangerous times ahead
Blah, blah, blah, to quote Greta Thunberg. That’s what the noise of the general election sounds like. Is anyone listening to what the mainstream party leaders are saying as we near polling day?
Two years after Russia’s invasion – why you should stand with Ukraine
As we enter the third year of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, it’s time to restate some basic facts behind a war that has… Read More »Two years after Russia’s invasion – why you should stand with Ukraine