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• ‘Socialist Worker’ Should Apologise for Mocking Schoolboy’s Death

  

  Everybody knows that the Socialist Worker, the weekly ‘newspaper’ published by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), is extremist. The supposedly communist ideolog... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Farage: Pay Me More When I’m an MP

  

  For a supposedly ‘anti-Establishment’ figure, UKIP leader Nigel Farage says and does a lot of things that exemplify Establishment life and opinion. Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Please, Don’t Make an Enemy of Germany

  Germany, the US and the UK are supposed to be friends. Since the defeat of the Nazis in 1945, the West German (and latterly the unified German) government... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Tories Plot Further Assault on Unions

  Since the 1970s, the Conservative Party has been obsessed with weakening the trade union movement. The National Union of Mineworkers effectively defeated the... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why We Fight Against Racial, Gender, and Sexual Discrimination

  Originally posted on The Secular Jurist: By Robert A. Vella I would like to take this opportunity to explain why The Secular Jurist devotes so much coverage to... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Beast of Bolsover is Not Beaten

  

  To the shock of most of the Labour movement, the 82 year-old backbencher Dennis Skinner, was last night voted off Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC),... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Should Businesses Join Political Parties?

  

  The outgoing President of the (right-wing) Australian Liberal Party, Alan Stockdale, has called for corporations to be given the option to ‘join’ the Liberals a... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Civil War Heats Up, Will Tea Party Go Rogue?

  The Political Idealist:Despite the talk of the Tea Party being a ‘busted flush’, the GOP faction is still going strong. Originally posted on The Secular... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Johnson’s Water Cannon Arrive

  The Mayor of London has completed the purchase of three water cannon from the German federal police force. The £218,000 weapons cannot be used unless the Home... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Official: It’s “Perfectly Legitimate” to Discriminate Against Benefits Claimants

  

  An individual private business will make commercial decisions. If they actually decide they don’t want to have somebody on housing benefit in the future,... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Greenpeace Must Do Better

  I’m very fond of Greenpeace.  Their distinctive brand of direct action (which requires some very bold activists!) has worked wonders for the broader... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Religious Segregation Must End

  I have no intention of raking over the “Trojan Horse” scheme- the alleged plot by extremist Muslims to take over various state schools in Birmingham. However,... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Hands Off Our Charities

  

  Just when you think that the Coalition’s attitude and policies on welfare cannot get any worse, they manage to surprise you with something even more horrible.No... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Lutfur Rahman: The Face of British Sectarianism

  

  Britain likes to think of itself as a successfully multicultural society. With around 15% of the population belonging to ethnic minorities, it was a source of... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is WordPress Ripping You Off?

  

  That time of year has come when it is time to renew my WordPress fees so that I can keep running my blogs on their .co.uk domains rather than the standard... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• TTIP: The EU-US Pact That Threatens Democracy

  

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  Posted on 30 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Ignored Hit Back

  Originally posted on Julian's musings: I guess I am old fashioned in many ways. I still see politics as the old fashioned battle between Labour and Conservative... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Welcome to the World of Trillionaires

  Credit Suisse has predicted that, by the 2070s, there will be around 11 trillionaires (as measured in US dollars) in the world. They claim that the first... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• It’s the Government, Stupid

  British politicians are addicted to privatisation. When Margaret Thatcher began her project of hacking away at the public sector, she justified it on the ground... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• If Rent Caps Are “Venezuelan”, Call Me Chavez

  The Labour Party has launched its campaign for the local and European elections (to be held in 20 days’ time)… With proposals for national legislation. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY