For a long time I have wondered whether the House of Commons serves any useful function. Certainly senior civil servants have dubbed it the 'monkey house'. Both government and opposition front benches are more answerable to corporate interests than the people who elected them, and the vast majority of...
Socialism is an idea, for some a dream, for others an impractical ideology. It's practicality in Britain however has seemed quite an underground, passive goal. It has been building in seeds of radical thinkers, oppressed class and in some cases, just people that are tired of this undying, rusting...
I met a man today who has advanced prostate cancer. He was full of spirit and with a smile he said "it could be worse, I could be a Tory." I could have pointed out that there are actually things worse than Tories but I was not that churlish. Also,...
The current situation in Syria is blood curdling. Daily we are bombarded with barbaric images of men,women and children gasping for breath. Innocent families are forced to abandon their livelihoods and homes. Entire towns are being destroyed; quite literally in the blink of an eye. We know the West...
The hall of shame is: Robert Walter, Dorset North, Conservative, £1,661.52, Gas & Electricity Christopher Chope, Christchurch, Conservative, £1,531.31, Gas & Electricity Conor Burns, Bournemouth West, Conservative, £146.00, Electricity Annette Brooke, Dorset Mid & Poole North, Liberal Democrats, £35.67, Electricity Those who did not claim: Dorset South, Richard...
The current situation in Syria is blood curdling. Daily we're bombarded with barbaric images of men,women and children gasping for breath. Innocent families are forced to abandon their livelihoods and homes. Entire towns are being destroyed; quite literally in the blink of an eye. We know the West widely...
Russell Brand is the guest editor of this week’s New Statesman, The Revolution Issue. Brand’s own contribution to the magazine, a 4,500 word polemic on the state of a political system that serves a very few at the expense of the rest is recommended reading. Brand’s essay was impassioned, righteous fury aimed at a broken...
Young people and older people are not really any different - what we are bored of and have lost faith in is the male, pale, stale, demographic that stands for established politics in the UK. With the odd exception you either get shouting and snoring from the benches or pre focus...
For the youth of today Politics is often a distant and sometimes boring subject. Yet for the older generation it’s often a non-stop debate on how our country, and world, is run. So is it true that young people have lost faith in Politics? And if so, who’s to...
Today the Gagging Bill, otherwise known as the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration, reaches the House of Lords for its second reading. A broad coalition of charities, campaign groups and blogs who will be gagged by the bill have come together in national newspapers to...
