A Tale of Two Industries.
Compare these two areas of government expenditure. One contributes over £42 billion to the economy and employs nearly 200,000 people. It also directly supports another 260,000 jobs in the UK,…
Three Lions
Following the final of EURO21 three black footballers were subject to a torrent of racist abuse on social media. Whatever their intent, the racists have only succeeded in provoking a…
A Cleethorpes of the Mind
Ian McMillan, writing in The i Paper about visiting his mother-in-law in her holiday caravan, thinks we all need “a Cleethorpes of the mind.” The Cleethorpes of my mind came…
Who Cares? Reds Care!
A few weeks ago Dave Middleton wrote a well researched blog on the crisis in social care, made all the more powerful by the personal story of the difficulties in…
Father and Son
On Fathers Day here is a poem I wrote for my father. I wish I could have written it when he was alive to read it. It is his birthday…
Herd Immunity
The government is hoping to use the success of the vaccination roll-out against Covid to rewrite the history of the pandemic and exonerate itself from all blame. Labour’s strategy of…
Labour values votes. But does it value voters?
Following the leaked report in 2019 that prompted the still unpublished Forde Inquiry we know that Jeremy Corbyn’s office had very little influence on party strategy during elections. Not only…
Border controls
Instead of taking back control I would like to take back a blog I posted in April on COVID and air travel I am not taking it back. I said…
Free the North or Free the World?
In yesterday’s post on the Northern Independence Party, when I said that, “It is the lack of class struggle that in part explains NIP’s appeal,” that could be mistaken for…