“Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto”Courtney Love
“I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against…
To be or not to be, or to partially be, that is the question.
Now that it seems highly likely that there will be a second (or strictly speaking a third) referendum on membership of the EU, the burning question of the moment is just what will be the question that is asked. The original question was quite easy, in or out, but…
I have given up the Labour Party, and not just for Lent. I am even now savouring the sweet air of pure socialism without the foul insidious stench of neoliberalist corruption. I gave up before, around 1997 if my memory serves me correctly, but I was seduced back into the habit a few…
The title of this piece is somewhat of a mixed metaphor, but it does convey an immediate message which is that if you build spanning a geological fault then, no matter how imposing and useful the building, it is almost certain to collapse.
When John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate” he was stating one of the most basic political truths, which is that there are always differing and often contradictory views on everything and that, outside of an…
Walking out into the autumn sunshine of the Liverpool dockside, there was a great temptation to feel optimistic; that finally the Labour Party might start doing its job, opposing the Tories, formulating new socialist policies and forging a campaign to win the next election…
Ever since the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, and many say before that, the prevailing political orthodoxy has been shaped by the “neoliberal” movement; although it only really reached the point of obtaining the power to bring it into practice, after…
