The Rule of the Mob: Labour Conference Banner Banned, Slashed
Peter Gregson On Sunday 22nd Sept, I, a Labour Party member since 1986, had my banner taken down from outside Conference. Why? The police agreed it was not anti-Semitic....
Labour’s Necrotising Fasciitis
In the long history of party politics, co-ordinated and systematic attacks on one political party are always initiated and perpetuated by a rival party or parties. Not least...
Guardian Deletes Open Letter Defending Chris Williamson
Yesterday the Guardian published an Open Letter from over 100 prominent Jewish academics, artists and members of the Labour party. As of now, the letter is gone. It was...
Antisemitism: what does that even mean?
Philip Roddis It pains and embarrasses me that I used to admire Dame Margaret Hodge. Her steely grillings of millionaires, in her capacity as chair of the select committee...
The great antisemitism witchhunt: McCarthyism redux
John Wight This article was first published on March 1st of this year, however, it is given fresh relevance in the wake of Labour’s reinstatement, and then re-suspension, of...
WATCH: Israeli Diplomat offering MP £1 million
OffG The Labour Party have suspended Pete Willsman, a member of their National Executive Committee, for being “antisemitic”. The charge is that Willsman was recorded claiming that the antisemitism...
Jess Phillips Emerges as Establishment Pick to Replace Corbyn
It seems The Times is willing to give column inches to any Labour MP willing to insult and undermine their leader, and is determined to try and tell the...
Beyond Reason
The Williamson case demonstrates only too clearly that anti-Semitism is no longer an issue that may be discussed in rational terms in the Labour Party. It is not...
Labour’s commissioned Legal Opinion on legitimacy of UK Air Strikes on Syria
This is the text of the legal opinion by Professor Dapo Akande, commissioned by Tom Watson, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party on the recent airstrikes...
HOT to TROT
by W Stephen Gilbert Hands up if you know what a Trot is. Could you recognise one at thirty paces? Could you confidently engage her on the matter of...
One Nation Labour: The Party That We Need
David Lindsay On the scale of public ownership and on the extent of trade union power, Jeremy Corbyn is well to the right of Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home....
