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My reaction to Labour's defeats - from Hartlepool to Hillsborough... (as its £ here's a summary of the action points)... 1/ Labour must adopt a £190bn Biden-style tax, borrow and

The Labour right is on the offensive against "post capitalism" and the UBI. That's nothing new - and we need to understand neither side can impose its agenda on the

Johnson's camarilla in turmoil - let's go back to the basic story 1/ His late lockdown decision in March 2020 cost tens of thousands of lives. Cummings has the evidence

The Tory party is giving us an object lesson in "culture war-ification": free school meals are an economic issue - now they're being elided with criminality and fecklessness 1/ it's

We're in Covid crisis mode again - and this is just the start. Why? Because Johnson is trapped between libertarian herd-immunity crowd, and a faction that wants to use the

Why the Golden Dawn verdict is important, but not enough. 1/ They were an outlier in European fascism, trying to combine the legal, parliamentary party with squadrismo (and major organised

They used an Excel spreadsheet for T&T when a database would be industry standard? The app was months delayed because of a technologically illiterate initial spec. Why?Because everything is privatised

Let's understand what "offshore refugee processing centres" and "wave machines to deter crossings" are: racist fantasies. They're being floated as ammunition in the culture war by far right ideologues in

The Tory gambit, breaking the Withdrawal Agreement makes sense as follows 1/ The deal is close - with fishing and state aid the main issues. They need freedom to hand

It's now clear that the vigilante call out in Kenosha was a strategic step by the far right. The US progressive movements now need their leaders to clearly enunciate the

Let's understand the twin delusions behind Johnson's latest Covid-19 fiasco: libertarianism and market worship 1/ On 3 Feb he said Britain would not "go beyond what is medically rational to

The American far right brain can't process the scale of the protests and the participation of white in solidarity ... so they are framed as "Antifa" ... just as striking