Category: Corbyn
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You know schools, right?
Sorry for the bar room tone of the title, but it seems to me to match the level of thinking we have been getting from our government. I have huge sympathy with the people who have been agitating all along to keep/get the schools open. I have huge sympathy with the people who want the…
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My Christmas Homework, 2016 (or, why we still look back in anger )
NB This was written in 2020. I am re-posting now to help this petition reach the million mark (We made it! Now, how about 1.5 million, to match the numbers on that famous march in London – or perhaps more, for all those on the other ‘don’t attack Iraq’ marches around the world.) Homework, set…
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Keith and Angela: the true story in all its horrible detail
There’s no shortage of passionate criticism of Starmer and Rayner’s phone bank rewards system out there – but let’s try and stop swearing and explain our frustration properly, because there is an important lesson here for these politicians and their followers to learn. When this image of the Labour Party’s idiot scheme did the rounds,…
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Listen, question, test
This idea is so important I have given it one of those fashionable three-word slogans to help me remember it. It’s unlikely you’ll agree with every statement I’m going to make in this article. If you’re the kind of person who needs trigger warnings to protect you from the trauma of being disagreed with, please…
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For goodness sake
Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!!! For the sake of those struck down by austerity in times of covd; for those who have lost jobs, homes and family; for the sake of refugees still struggling to get a secure foothold in any country; for the sake of black activists being kicked around in the United States, for right-to-return…
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“Told you so” is not the way to success
Lexit is (was) the idea of withdrawing from the neoliberalist strait-jacket of the EU *without* selling ourselves to the USA.
Kay Green 