The Right-Wing Of UK Labour Wants To Out-Tory The Tories
With the formerly sidelined neo-liberal contingent of the Westminster Labour Party now moving to prevent the selection of a left-wingContinue Reading
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With the formerly sidelined neo-liberal contingent of the Westminster Labour Party now moving to prevent the selection of a left-wingContinue Reading
Many explanations have been offered for the humiliating defeat of the Labour Party in the UK general election but perhapsContinue Reading
Despite a lot of churn in the polls the final week of campaigning in the British general election looks setContinue Reading
Watching the general election campaign in the United Kingdom from this side of the Irish Sea the Brexit-fuelled contest betweenContinue Reading
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Given the events of the last fortnight, that Shakespearean quip is as goodContinue Reading
Local government and mayoral elections in much of England has yielded a series of mixed outcomes for pro- and anti-BrexitContinue Reading
It’s not often in Western Europe that one gets to watch a head of government staging a live television broadcastContinue Reading
When it comes to politics, I’m pretty much your typical centre-left, social-democratic, wishy-washy, and occasionally hypocritical, bleeding heart liberal. IContinue Reading
Two weeks ago the Sunday Mail newspaper in Scotland published details of an investigation into the activities of the InstituteContinue Reading
Yesterday’s claim by John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer for the British Labour Party, that he longs for a reunitedContinue Reading
If the assessment of the press in Britain is correct, Theresa May seems to have brought her tottering government toContinue Reading
The hysterical reaction by a significant section of the news media in the United Kingdom to the forthcoming visit byContinue Reading
If anything encapsulates the political insanity gripping the United Kingdom, surely it must be the sight of the reactionary LabourContinue Reading
One of the lesser reported aspects of the Irish Republican Army’s former military campaign in the United Kingdom is the low-levelContinue Reading
And the people of Ireland wish we could say the same of Theresa May and her wretched fundamentalist-appeasing Conservative PartyContinue Reading
Irish and British political commentators are already warning of unintended consequences stemming from the backdoor-coalition deal between the Conservative PartyContinue Reading
There is an old joke from the UK-administered north-east of Ireland, one that has a great deal of truth behind it. DuringContinue Reading
With the United Kingdom’s right-wing press whipping itself up into a frenzy over the alleged sympathy of Labour Party leaderContinue Reading
Just a few quick points on last week’s local elections in the United Kingdom and the continuing post-referendum shift inContinue Reading
In the lead up to June’s Brexit referendum, the plebiscite on Britain’s membership of the European Union, there were several things which made me question justContinue Reading
The left-wing British politician, Jeremy Corbyn, recently gave Vice News behind the scenes access to his embattled leadership of the UK LabourContinue Reading
Well it didn’t take long for John McDonnell, the finance spokesperson for the UK Labour Party, to walk back from hisContinue Reading