Local and national organisations are uniting to show their opposition to Armed Forces Day, due to be held in Falmouth on 24th June. Groups involved include Campaign Against Arms Trade, the Peace Pledge Union, ForcesWatch, Demilitarise Education, Cornwall Resists and local and national Quaker organisations. All groups say that...
There are certain words and phrases in British politics that play a significant role - "populism," "Brexit," "legitimate concerns," and the "red wall." These terms will be used extensively in the coming weeks to explain how someone like Boris Johnson managed to become Prime Minister.
An ongoing effort to distance...
Coverage of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and Nord Stream pipelines shows a western media willing to prioritise anti-Russian propaganda over facts
The hypocrisy gets starker by the day. The same western media that strains to warn of the dangers of disinformation – at least when it comes to...
Boris Johnson is a liar. And a bully.
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The Partygate Saga both in Downing Street and the former prime minister’s weekend retreat of Chequers was no unfortunate accident for Boris Johnson . Partygate was symptomatic of the chaotic and laissez-faire of Boris Johnson’s “style of management”.
Boris Johnson’s government had laid down strict rules that everyone had to...
As some of you know I was the weekly climate columnist at The Independent for 3.5 years, up to January of this year.
Then Evgeny Lebedev, the Russian billioniare who owns it, appointed his mate, the vile climate-trashing Etonian Tory and former Daily Mail editor, Geordie Greig to be new...
First up Alastair Campbell.
Some may be surprised to see him here but he is undoubtedly what the Tories used to call a 'Wet'. Not complete fascists and nearer the centre than their psychopathic colleagues. However, given that he helped manipulate the UK in to a murderous war that is...
For those who would prefer that Parliament was not a game between two establishment parties, recycling old policies dressed in new clothes, this person sums it up.
Of course the opening gambit of 'incompetence' depends on which side one is on. If one is an establishment politician it is about...
The Stigma of Mental Illness is Alive and Well
Some 25% of us untermenschen walk among you. The mentally ill. You probably speak of their depression or anxiety in whispered terms to mutual friends or family. You may even know one or two of the 2% or so of us...
Jeremy Corbyn became a Member of Parliament (MP) on June 11, 1983. He was elected as the Labour Party MP for the constituency of Islington North in the United Kingdom.
Forty years on he talks to Melissa Benn about how it came about and the last forty years.
His secret?
To not...
