30 December 2015
INTERNATIONALISM
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29 December 2015
LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES
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Little Atoms, 28 December 2015 A new outro for Moscow Gold? by me and Kevin Davey online here .
22 December 2015
MERRY XMAS
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'All over the war-wrecked areas from Brussels to Stalingrad, other uncounted millions are living in the cellars of bombed houses, in hid...
2 December 2015
SYRIA ONCE MORE
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It's difficult to know where to begin on this, but here goes: The proposal to expand UK airstrikes against Isis from Iraq to Syria i...
26 November 2015
THE MCDONNELL MAO JOKE
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If there was any point to throwing Mao’s Little Red Book at George Osborne, it was to have a go at him for cosying up to the Chinese gove...
20 November 2015
ONCE AGAIN, CORBYN
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Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader marks the most radical break in Labour politics since 1931. His overwhelming victory means that th...
13 August 2015
THOUGHTS ON CORBYN
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1. A large part of the bien pensant liberal middle class did not believe what happened in front of their eyes at the general election. They...
22 May 2015
MY ELECTORAL HUMILIATION
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Here's the result (I lost): ANDERSON Paul James Labour 1003 GORDON Pippa UK Independence Party 542 HORE Martin Liberal Democrats ...
7 May 2015
VOTE LABOUR
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4 April 2015
CHINA FROM THE MARGINS
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I’m just back in Britain from a whistle-stop tour of China, where I was speaking at the Bookworm Literary Festival , a fortnight-long talkf...
6 March 2015
THE STRUGGLE STARTS HERE
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I'm standing again for Bixley ward in Ipswich for the borough council. Vote for me!
20 January 2015
SOLIDARITY
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7 January 2015
LOWER THAN VERMIN
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2 December 2014
NOT A LOT HAPPENING HERE
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I'm busy with new jobs and working on Aaargh! Press stuff, so not a lot is going to be posted here for the next six months.
17 September 2014
VOTE YES
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"Just vote yes tomorrow. You'll regret it if you don't. Make a bit of history," says former editor of Labour weekly Tribun...
15 July 2014
WHO ARE YOU?
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I've just realised that I've never heard of, let alone met, most of the Tories who have been promoted in the reshuffle. Who is Cynth...
28 June 2014
NO TO #levesonnow
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Some of the more ludicrous elements of Brian Leveson's proposals for press regulation were toned down in the royal charter – but the thr...
27 June 2014
JUNCKER IS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
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Well, no one else is going to say this, but the choice of Jean-Claude Juncker isn't that bad. He might well be a "fag-packet federa...
14 June 2014
IN DEFENCE OF BERNARD CRICK
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This is what I said (more or less) at the University of Lincoln symposium 'Orwell Now!' – organised by Richard Keeble, who was a col...
7 June 2014
NEWARK NONSENSE
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The only thing that would have turned the Newark byelection into a big national story was a UKIP victory, and it didn't happen. Instead,...
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