Category: Politics

So, about those Democrat infiltrators …

Yesterday, someone posted a link to the blog by the author of the Dilbert cartoons, alleging among other things that violence at Trump rallies had mostly been caused by infiltrators from Clinton's campaign, who...

Apricot kernels

Earlier today I was browsing the mentions of Kate Granger, the doctor best known for setting up the "Hello, my name is…" campaign aimed at encouraging doctors, nurses and other health professionals to introduce...

So, where’s your inspiring leader?

This week, as the Tory leadership election gets underway and a bunch of five ghastly right-wing, anti-immigrant, mostly Islamophobic extremists compete to be the next prime minister, people who are in or more inclined...

Brexit: A misguided vote

So, on Friday morning we woke up to the news that Britain had voted narrowly (51.9%) in favour of leaving the European Union, with Scotland overwhelmingly against and Northern Ireland also mostly against, but...

Appeal to Muslims on Brexit

Recently I've seen a couple of articles online appealing to Muslims to vote for Britain to leave the EU in this Thursday's referendum. The claims are that the EU is anti-Muslim, that it could...

Brexiters are lying

Coming home the other day over a flyover on the A3, I saw a poster from Vote Leave, the official campaign for Britain to leave the EU, which proclaimed "Turkey (population 76 million) is...

Who flies an English flag?

There’ll always be an England … and Labour must learn to love it by Tristram Hunt (from the Guardian) Tristram Hunt, in this article which appeared on the Guardian website Sunday before last, argues...

Make corruption history?

Who remembers the slogan "Make Poverty History"? It used to be found on banners on streets, on pamphlets and on the top corners of websites. I remember Bob Geldof trying to get a crowd...

No, Labour can’t “just win”

One of the candidates standing for the Labour party's National Executive Committee (NEC), having replaced Ken Livingstone on the centre-left slate, is a lady called Rhea Wolfson, who came to my attention today when...

High Valour?

A number of years ago I heard a play on Radio 4 whose title I can't remember but I suspect it was called High Valour. It was about a couple who emigrated to Australia...

Against this Brexit now

So, the date for the referendum on Britain's exit from the European Union has been set (23rd June) and politicians on both sides are coming out with their position on the matter. Unusually, David...

Why was Sarah Reed in prison, not hospital?

Sarah Reed told family of alleged sexual assault in hospital, from the Guardian It has been revealed that Sarah Reed, the woman who was found dead in her cell at Holloway Prison in London...

Cologne attacks tell us nothing about Islam

On New Year's Eve, an organised gang of hundreds of young men, described as being of Arab or North African appearance, descended on the main railway station in Cologne, Germany, and molested and robbed...

Joe Holliday and medical gender assignment

Back in the late 1990s I remember watching a documentary about a young girl then named Joella Holliday, whose mother had been fighting to get a birth certificate issued that said she was female....