Scotland’s Travails and England’s Woes | The demise of Nicola Sturgeon was the latest twist in the political game between England and Scotland. The arrest of Peter Murrell, the former SNP chief...
FOR AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT FOR AN AGREEMENT OF THE PEOPLE FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND The Coronation and the Commonwealth of England | Charles Windsor is automatically the head of state under...
The Crown and slavery: a democratic republican reading of the Guardian series | King Charles urged to ‘take some responsibility’ for royal slavery links | King Charles III | The Guardian | My main...
Free Julian Assange Now | Defend our democratic right to know. Free Julian Assange Now. I will start with three questions; 1. Will the defeat of Donald Trump and election of Joe Biden make any difference to the cruel and unjust treatment of Julian Assange 2. Why...
Labour's Historic Defeat in Scotland | You may remember the famous Monty Python sketch about a parrot returned by a dissatisfied customer, John Cleese, to the pet-shop run by Michael Palin. As Cleese enters the shop, Palin says, “We are closing for lunch”. Cleese says...
English Nationalism In Weekly Worker (12 March 2020) Bob Smart criticises my comments on Royal Socialism and English nationalism by saying I “attack(s) Labour Party Marxists for not supporting the right of self-determination for Scotland and Wales. It is...
Royal Socialism | As reported by Stan Keable in “A vision of royal socialism” (Weekly Worker 27 February 2020) the Labour Left Alliance (LLA) conference on 22 February 2020 was a significant event in the evolution of the Labour left, revitalised by the election of...
Anti-Unionism and Left Unity | The Tories, UKIP, the Democratic Unionists, the Liberal Democrats, and the Labour Party are all British Unionist parties. Last weekend Left Unity (LU) conference took a significant step forward. It became an Anti-Unionist party and thus...
