Back in 1789, when Jacob Rees-Mogg was a teenager, Benjamin Franklin said, “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. Had Mr Franklin had a bit more of the Nostradamus about him, he would’ve added something about Peter Mandelson being a dead cert for heaping...
I am anti-Zionist. I say that without a second thought, or without a single shit given for who I may or may not offend. I mean, if *that* offends you, just you wait until you see what’s been happening in Gaza. No, Jeremy Corbyn did not have to say he is an anti-Zionist But I’m...
We’re now at that point of the not-so-great immigration debate where mainstream political leaders are committing to sending refugees back to the Taliban to be slaughtered, to the unbridled glee of a bloodthirsty minority that think “our” is spelled as “are”, and painting a red cross on a r...
One thing we have learnt about Keir Starmer — aside from him being the son of a toolmaker, some forty four times — is his willingness to abandon any semblance of a socialist principle to bring the Labour Party in harmonious alignment with establishment interests. Starmer is also particula...
There ain’t no hypocrisy like Labour Party hypocrisy. Sure, fourteen years of Tory rule was built upon foundations of sanctimony, deception and staggering duplicity — nobody is forgetting that in a hurry — but Minister for Homelessness Rushanara Ali evicting tenants from her inner-city to...
The question of Palestinian statehood has been front and centre of the news agenda for much of the past week. Forgive me for not joining in with the celebrations because this was a desperate act by a desperate man, not a principled stand for justice for the Palestinian people. I won’t be c...