A new defence doctrine for LabourKeep Trident. End expeditionary warfareIn this essay and video I’ve tried to outline what a radical left Labour government in the UK should do about defence and national security.
John Rentoul – apology accepted but you must be held to account.John Rentoul went too far last night. The ‘Chief Political Commentator’ for the Independent on Sunday had this to say as people were being murdered in Paris last night:
Crowdfunding — A new model for Politics?Earlier this week a strange post popped up on my timeline; it was the leader of the opposition party in the UK Parliament Jeremy Corbyn, for whom members of the public had raised money to buy him his dream bike after he revealed in an interview that a…
Where do we go from here?With bookmakers already paying out on bets that Jeremy Corbyn will be elected leader of the Labour party on 12 September the time for moderates to start preparing for the battles that lay ahead is now. It will not be easy but it is imperative that we do all that we can to cushion…
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership victory — a reading listMostly, I’ll be reading what Jeremy Gilbert, Zoe Williams & Gary Younge have to say and nodding along in agreementGary Younge http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/13/jeremy-corbyn-victory…
“In the event, Jeremy Corbyn’s reshuffle was less a night of the long knives than a day of misplaced cutlery.”The opening paragraph to Matthew d’Ancona’s tedious and overblown article in today’s Standard.
The spectacle of politics; its not the same thing as ‘democracy’Janan Ganesh writes here (FT — £) on the politics of Corbynmania.Reading it, it occurs to me that the ‘Politics’ that we have always known, is a functional thing that is used to ‘game’ the…
Corbynmania: why it’s time for Labour to roll over and die (and the purge confirms it)70 years ago, Labour had a slogan: “Let us face the future”. The heir apparent to the leadership of the party is a man who represents that future. The trouble is, that future is now no longer our future; it is the past. No one has made…