Of Our Time

Speymouth July 2, 2024

Welcome to Britain four years after twenty-twenty We’ve lived through a pandemic now state coffers state empty The cost of living’s gone up in a time of austerity Our Prime Minister wouldn’t resign he was so full of temerity Everybody’s noticed ten pounds won’t go far It will get you even less if you have […] Source

Barbarism Begins at Home: The Continuing Great Moving Right Show and War on Democracy

Speymouth July 2, 2024

Across the West politics are fractured, divisive, and raise more questions than answers. Biden vs. Trump; the authoritarian US Supreme Court extending Trump’s Presidential immunity; the march of the far-right in the French legislative assembly elections; the UK election and emptiness of the mainstream – a trend reflected by Andrew Hindmoor in Haywire: A Political […] Source

The end of the Tory nightmare, a worse one on the horizon

Speymouth July 1, 2024

We are in the final stretch of a Westminster general election campaign which, if the polls are accurate, will finally spell the end of fourteen years of a cruel, nasty, chaotic, corrupt, and incompetent Tory government which has presided over the devastation of public services, a huge rise in poverty, deprivation,…

On Getting Rid of the Tories

Speymouth June 30, 2024

You’re not voting in a normal General Election. The landscape has changed completely and is rapidly changing further before your eyes. Just as you are living through a rapid climate deterioration – the consequences of which you dare not even imagine – so too the political realities you have been used to all your life […] Source