Author: Speymouth

Shifting goalposts and the failure of the Scottish media

Speymouth October 31, 2023

There’s something striking about the Scottish media’s treatment of the current constitutional impasse blocking the path to a second independence referendum. The Scottish media portrays this as exclusively a problem for the SNP, and no consideration is given to the anti-democratic stance of the British nationalist parties in both blocking any…

27 New Oil and Gas Licences in North Sea

Speymouth October 30, 2023

On the day the UK govt give the disgraceful go-ahead for 27 new oil and gas licences in the North Sea it’s worth hearing this interview from Zack Polanski, Green Party Deputy Leader in England. Some highlights: “Rosebank has the carbon equivalent of 700 million people around the world – and Keir Starmer doesn’t think […] Source

The cowardice of Keir Starmer

Speymouth October 26, 2023

Keir Starmer is a coward. During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday Starmer had six questions for Rishi Sunak, not one of which related to the topic which dominates the news headlines and which it’s no exaggeration to say threatens the outbreak of actual world war three. But it still wasn’t important…

The change Labour promises is just more of the same

Speymouth October 23, 2023

Last week, Labour won two by elections in formerly safe Conservative seats in Tamworth in Staffordshire and Mid Bedfordshire, in both cases Labour overturned huge Conservative majorities. In Tamworth the Conservatives had won 66.3% of the vote at the general election in 2019, making it one of the safest Conservative seats…