On Comments and Parasitism

Comments have been switched off for individuals who have a parasitic relationship to this site. I have lots of patience but this is not infinite. I rarely ban people, I don’t want to, I want this site to be full of people I disagree with and a broad and deep variety of views. I hope […] Source

On Monsters and Mob Rule

George Galloway’s election in the Rochdale byelection has caused shockwaves and no amount of hysteria, on all political sides. Much of the left seems confused by the veteran charismatic figures ability to damage Keir Starmer’s Labour party by brutally exposing his complicity in Israeli atrocities in Palestine, while the right is now talking about ‘mob […] Source

Labour’s insidious threat to devolution

Anyone who was daft enough to have thought that a Conservative defeat at the next Westminster general election and Sunak’s replacement with a Labour government led by Keir Starmer would mean an end to British nationalist attacks on the devolution settlement is in for a very big disappointment. The right wing…

Britannia Unhinged: 30p Lee and the Unbrits

Almost twenty years ago the Conservatives paid for a huge advertising hoarding outside City and Islington College’s sixth-form centre, saying on one side: “I mean, how hard is it to keep a hospital clean?” and on the other: “It’s not racist to impose limits on immigration”. At the foot of the poster, a question is […] Source

Repaying Westminster contempt in kind

After last Wednesday’s disgraceful scenes in the House of Commons when Speaker Lindsay Hoyle acceded to pressure from Labour leader Keir Starmer to trash Commons conventions and effectively to turn what was supposed to be an SNP Opposition day debate on a ceasefire in Gaza into a Labour Opposition day debate,…