High Court Refuses Solicitor General’s Application to Imprison Trudi Warner  

In March 2023, Trudi held a sign outside Inner London Crown Court. She was arrested and charged with Contempt of Court.  Today, the High Court refused the application to imprison her. Mr Justice Saini, presiding over the case, said: “The Solicitor General’s case does not disclose a reasonable basis for committal…It is fanciful to suggest […] Source

Wee Ginger Crowdfunder 2024

It’s that time of the year with the blog that always makes me apprehensive, the annual crowd funder. I am launching it a bit early this year as there is a lot of chatter about an early general election and I don’t want it to fall into the official election campaign…

The turbulent river

The big story in Scottish politics today is the one that cannot really be commented on due to Scotland’s strict laws about contempt of court and not saying anything in public which might prejudice the outcome of criminal proceedings. Last week former SNP Chief Executive Peter Murrell, the husband of former…

Backing Bella 2024

Yesterday we laid out some of our themes for the year ahead (Spring 2024: Bella re-Boot) – today we are launching a crowdfund to try and gather some resources to pay for, specifically, freelance writers. As we say here: “We have no big-backers, remain ad-free and don’t hide behind a paywall. We set our own agenda […] Source

Scotland, HS2, Friedrich Engels, and the Multiverse

(I) As has been widely noted, Angela Rayner recently became the new Michael Matheson in the serial distraction scam through which most of the British media deflect attention from the billions extracted from the public purse to enrich cronies of the Conservative Party.  An article in the Guardian (8 October 2023) speculated that UK losses […] Source