Rachel Reeves, the self-styled guardian of “fiscal responsibility”, should be sitting at the dining table of her constituency home, filling out an online application form for Universal Credit around about now. Reeves, or the fiscal Iron Lady if you prefer, confessed not in shame but in a s...
A fresh survey this week suggested Labour has plummeted to fourth place in voter intentions, behind not just the Conservatives and Reform UK, but potentially even the Greens. Starmer: turbocharging Labour’s demise Keir Starmer isn’t just floundering, he is actively accelerating the death o...
A few, instantly forgettable days in the city of Manchester has confirmed the Conservative Party is unable to provide a credible opposition to a widely discredited, scandal-ridden Labour government. I am in absolutely no doubt whatsoever; the Conservative Party is dead. The 2024 general el...
After fifty-odd minutes of painfully listening to Keir Starmer this past week, I suddenly remembered why I cannot stand these leaders’ keynote speeches and I will intentionally avoid the rest of them for whatever remains of this party conference season. But seeing as we are already here… I...
The word “genocide” is often deemed to be provocative and misleading by its perpetrators and enablers. Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the term “genocide” in 1944, tirelessly advocated for the recognition of genocide as an international crime, influencing the drafting of ...
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...