Guardian Plugs War Criminal's Book
by Kit Nobody should be surprised to learn that Alistair Campbell, the former Blair PR guru, suffers from psychological problems. Obviously, lacking empathy to the extent that you can...
Social-Democracy and the Centre-Left: Decline and Fall?
Viewed retrospectively, the significance of the Reagan-Thatcher counter-revolutionary offensive of the 1980s has been seen primarily as a political project aimed at the overturning of the post-WW2 political and...
Road to Destruction
by W Stephen Gilbert The Labour party is on a perilous path. That it may end in an irrevocable split is the least of our worries. Of greater concern...
UK's Labour Party: A view from the grass roots
by Rosie Brocklehurst After a whole year of being accused of criminal behaviour with not one shred of evidence, the innocent newbies, would-be Labour joiners, are learning about the...
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....
Corbyn: blowback at the not-OK Corral
by Philip Roddis, July 26, 2016 Millionaire Labour donor Michael Foster wants to reverse the NEC decision and seeks a [high court] declaration that, under Labour party rules, Corbyn...
The Origins of Labour's Civil War
As the poisonous and potentially irrevocable conflict inside the Labour Party gathers pace, it seems a useful exercise to try to plot the origins of the animus. This...
Chilcot: Internal memos show Syria may have been on the agenda since 2001
The Chilcot Report was released On Wednesday, and a hard copy can be yours for just £767 (though I would suggest reading it free online here), and while there...
Guardian: Iraqis think Blair made a ‘mistake’
by Jonathan Cook It will be no surprise to readers of this blog that I believe Tony Blair should be put on trial for crimes against humanity for assisting...
War Criminal Blair Warmongers for Ground Invasion of Syria and Iraq
from New Eastern Outlook In an ideal world, Tony Blair would have been tried for war crimes years ago, and most probably would be over a decade into a...
Silencing America as It Prepares for War
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy...
Owen Jones: Tough on meanness, tough on the causes of meanness
In his latest piece on Vladimir Putin, Owen Jones demonstrates the weakness of the politically left-of-centre press in the UK - and indeed the Western world as a whole....
John Pilger: “From Pol Pot to ISIS: The blood never dried”
Following the ISIS outrages in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it. Part of...
On meeting dodgy people
by Owen Jones on Tumblr Disclaimer: I’ve known Jeremy Corbyn for years, and I support his against-all-odds leadership campaign. In his decades of political activity, Jeremy Corbyn has attended...
Socks, sandals and ISIS: the lame tragedy of the Guardian’s anti-Corbyn campaign
My greatest problem with the Graun's propaganda is that it's bad, and yet thinks it isn't. Even more so than the lamentable coverage of Russia and Ukraine, the...
While others moan and rant, Jeremy Corbyn rocks
by Bryan Hemming You’ve got to love Albert Einstein. Nutty professor personified, he invented the atom bomb by mistake. I wish I could do stuff like that by scribbling...
