When Jeremy Corbyn was asked if he wanted to see Britain suffer, under the yoke of European, or perhaps somehow Iranian, or simply good old fashioned home-grown debt, he responded – in spite of his extravagant spending policies – that as a matter of fact he would rather it not. And when he was prodded and goaded and asked if…
Amid the uncertainty of a hung parliament, what can hardly be overstated about the 2017 general election result is just how much of a disaster it represents for Theresa May. Having called an unnecessary election believing herself in a position of barely-precedented strength – despite repeatedly vowing no snap election, with her spokesman reiterating the point less than a month before…
When the House of Commons voted overwhelmingly last week in favour of the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, granting Theresa May the ability to invoke Article 50 and steam ahead with a hard Brexit, there was some muttering among members of the real and supposed opposition regarding potential amendments. The cursory bill, introduced by Brexit secretary David Davis after the…
Last July, one of Theresa May’s first acts as Prime Minister was to stress her support for the renewal of the United Kingdom’s Trident nuclear programme. Asked by Scottish National Party MP George Kerevan if she would be prepared to authorise a strike which ‘could kill a hundred thousand innocent men, women and children’, she replied: ‘Yes. And I have to…
What do you see in the images below? Each is iconic in its own peculiar sort of way, strange illustrations conjuring the worlds of science fiction, famous stills pulled from reels of old films, capital landmarks or grand historical gestures well rooted in the popular culture, a culture which we all to a greater or lesser degree must share. Yet…
Let’s face it, amid all the brouhaha surrounding Jeremy Corbyn vs. Virgin Trains, you don’t need to think that the Labour leader lied outright or took advantage of the situation to feel your gorge rising in sheer contempt for the man. You already probably didn’t like him, and whether he passed over available seating or scurried at the sight of reserved…
Nobody in Britain who finds themselves compelled to catch the train – whether on a regular, intermittent, or entirely haphazard sort of basis – can doubt for one moment the incompetence of the present privatised system. Trains are routinely late and delayed en route for a whole litany of reasons passed off as the whims of a cruel fate. Perhaps something has…
It should go without saying that true moderates would never hire a firing squad to dispatch of their enemies, much less turn the guns on members supposedly of their own party, nor would they set fire to their shared accommodation and squeal with delight as they found themselves immolated by the flames. But the self-described moderates of today’s Labour Party have…
Poles and Muslims find themselves overwhelmingly under attack, with the brave perpetrators especially targeting Muslim women as they daub buildings with graffiti and subject individuals to verbal and physical assault. After working for years in the country, filling jobs the natives won’t touch, people from Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, Nepal, and Albania – to name just a few – find themselves seized…
For a party which flourished on socialist principles, and was meant to democratically represent the working class, the imposition of an exorbitant £25 fee for the right to vote in the upcoming leadership election might have seemed dangerously like Labour’s last gasp. But now that the ban on the voting rights of recent members has been overturned by the High Court, the…
