Leaving the Labour Party is not easy; nearly a year after the event, you still follow the debates, discuss things with your former comrades, still feel a certain emotional pull. The Labour Party is far too much like a family – admittedly one, to misquote Orwell, with the wrong members in control – for its […]
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On the day after the Armistice commemorations around the world, the London media are full of stories about one topic – Jeremy Corbyn’s inappropriate choice of attire for the Cenotaph ceremony in Whitehall yesterday morning. It is being argued that his choice of a blue anorak rather than the sombre smart overcoat of the other […]
On Wednesday, those of us who listened to Jeremy Corbyn’s speech heard a plea for party unity. Today, on Friday, comes confirmation that Derek Hatton of Liverpool Militant has been readmitted to the Party. Not only does this news show how shallow that appeal for unity was, but serves as a powerful reminder – if […]
With the ballot papers about to be despatched in Labour’s increasingly testy leadership election, it’s a good time to take stock of the debate so far, and to summarise what we’ve learned from a contest that has tended to generate more heat than light. The most important thing is that this is a historic contest. […]
A year ago, I cast my vote in the Labour Party leadership election for Jeremy Corbyn. I felt strongly at the time that this was the only vote that would wean Labour’s leadership off its taste for austerity economics, with all his opponents implicitly accepting the framing behind it. I’d been appalled when Labour failed […]
The rollercoaster that is Brighton and Hove Green Party politics has just taken another stomach-churning lurch. At its General Meeting last week the Brighton and Hove Green Party passed two motions which define its approach to politics in the city in the weeks preceding the General and City Council elections. Faced with cuts in Government […]
Notes from a Broken Society 