Showing posts with label Jeremy Corbyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeremy Corbyn. Show all posts
Saturday, March 07, 2026

The Joy of Six 1485

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"Yet again, we’re all caught up with the fame-encrusted stories of rich, powerful men. The women and their reported life-scarring encou...
Monday, January 26, 2026

"Like trying to do geometry with blancmange": My Liberator article on Blue Labour

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Move over Lord Bonkers: I have an article in the new Liberator (issue 344). You can download the whole issue for free from the magazine...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Sultana accused by Corbyn allies of encouraging 'ultra leftists' to disrupt Your Party conference

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The judges' verdict is in: Sky News wins our Headline of the Day Award.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The Joy of Six 1437

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Sienna Rodgers takes us inside the power struggle at the top of Your Party: "There is talk that the leadership race could feature at l...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

A conspiracy theory from Neal Lawson: Keir Starmer was never meant to be prime minister

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Embed from Getty Images Their influence on the far right means I don't enjoy conspiracy theories as much as I used to, but let's gi...
Saturday, September 06, 2025

The Joy of Six 1405

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Adam Barnett itemises Nigel Farage's long history of support for Vladimir Putin: "On the eve of Russia’s 2022 invasion, Nigel Fara...
Friday, September 05, 2025

Zack Polanski: More left-wing populist than Green?

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Embed from Getty Images Simon McGrath makes an interesting observation on Liberal Democrat Voice: Looking at his statement when he was elec...
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Sunday, July 27, 2025

The Joy of Six 1390

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John Oxley says it will be hard to assemble a successful new party to the left of Labour: "Building an effective left populist bloc re...
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Friday, July 11, 2025

The Joy of Six 1383

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“I couldn’t shake the fear that future generations might never experience the world as I had, that we might go down in history as the genera...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

Zarah Sultana quits Labour to found new party with Jeremy Corbyn

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Embed from Getty Images It's a development that's been rumoured for days, and earlier this evening Zarah Sultana send this tweet to ...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Zack Polanski's first encounter with the Corbynite left

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Zac Polanski's pitch for the leadership of the Greens is centred on the idea of attracting the sort of urban, left-wing voters who were ...
Friday, March 07, 2025

Conservative Home's strange view of the party's "Lib Dem problem"

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When I saw that Conservative Home has a post today about sorting the Conservatives' Liberal Democrat problem, I was curious and a littl...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Lord Bonkers' Diary: His mother’s rosehip vodka makes an excellent Molotov cocktail

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The King of the Badgers pops up here from time to time. As I've explained before, the name comes from the Revd J.P. Martin's Uncle b...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

GUEST POST Many liberal Conservatives are becoming conservative Liberals

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Buddy Anderson  traces his path from Conservative voter to Liberal Democrat councillor - and a Liberal Democrat councillor in Market Harboro...
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Thursday, August 31, 2023

The Joy of Six 1158

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"Basic Income was proposed by Paddy Ashdown as a fundamental component of his Radical Agenda for the 1990s, a book published in the lat...
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Thursday, June 22, 2023

The Joy of Six 1140

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Julian Le Grand makes the case for universal basic capital: a £10k grant for every 18-year-old. "Seventeen minutes in, after presentin...
Saturday, October 01, 2022

The Joy of Six 1078

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"It appears those who called Friday’s mini-budget a “special fiscal operation” had it right. Not just because of the subterfuge involve...
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Thursday, May 26, 2022

Claudia Webbe's sentence cut so there will be no recall petition

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Claudia Webbe, the MP for Leicester East, today lost her appeal against a conviction for harassing a love rival. But her sentence was reduce...
Sunday, January 03, 2021

GUEST POST Carry On up the Brexit

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Stuart Whomsley on the psychodrama that was Brexit. Ten years ago, Europe was not an issue for the vast majority of the people of the UK. T...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Six of the Best 961

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"A basic income will be the best, fairest and simplest way to safeguard the most vulnerable in society and care for those who need it....