The Russian Connection - update

 

There is no doubt across the world, even in Russia, that Vladimir Putin was directly involved in the murder on Friday 16 February 2024 of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.

How can Labour win next time?

 

To win power, and to stay in power for more than one term, Labour needs to do something special.

Labour, it's time to think BIG

The Guardian has reported that Labour is planning to ditch radical reforms and only offer ‘safe policies’ in a stripped-down, cautious manifesto that is “bombproof” to Tory attacks.

Without migrants, we wouldn't have the NHS

Our NHS would collapse without migrants.

My real-life adventures

 

The word Brexit was invented in 2012. It’s when I started to campaign against it, seriously concerned that it could really happen.

But what did I do before that?

My first attempt at stand-up comedy

I get out this old video every Christmas, just for a laugh (literally).

The infamous five Prime Ministers

 

The five Conservative Prime Ministers of this millennium have cumulatively inflicted such deeply ingrained damage to our country that it may take generations to repair what they have done.

Boris Johnson: Sorry is too easy

 

No matter what he does wrong – and there’s a thick catalogue of wrongs – Boris Johnson thinks he can just say “sorry” and everything will be fine.

Racism and right-wing extremism

 

It was on 1 December 1955 that a black woman in Montgomery, Alabama was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.

How freaky hair 'won' in the Netherlands and Britain

 

An editorial in The Guardian asked a key question following the shock ‘win’ this month of a far-right politician in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, and his anti-immigrant ‘Party for Freedom’.

‘How did the Netherlands reach the point at which a former political pariah finds himself on the threshold of formal power?’