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Following the leaked report in 2019 that prompted the still unpublished Forde Inquiry we know that Jeremy Corbyn’s office had very little influence on party strategy during elections.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…
Free the North?
The Northern Independence Party (NIP) is causing quite a stir. James Matthewson, head of communications to Ian Lavery, who chaired the Labour Party from 2017 – 20, has written for…
Why Voting Matters
IF VOTING CHANGED ANYTHING THEY’D MAKE IT ILLEGAL! I used to think this was a clever slogan. But if voting never changed anything what the heck happened with Brexit? And…
Pandora’s Jar: Penelope
Each of these illustrations is mentioned in Natalie Haynes book, Pandora’s Jar, about women in Greek myths. The page numbers refer to the book. The links are where I found…