…but not in a good way In fact so world beatingly outstanding is Johnson’s approach to the Covid crisis that the Italians are actually using it as an example of what not to do. They don’t tell you that in the Telegraph or Daily Mail…… Read more
Labour – forget management, target youthful hope
There is a lot wrong with Labour but in the current voting system Labour is really all we’ve got – if we are at all progressive. Labour has to decide how to get rid of the Tories and its brand of disaster capitalism. This would be my approach… They could start by suggesting that a… Read more
World beating – at the bottom…
Caroline Lucas tells it as ever, as it is. It really is monumentally disastrous that government is failing to provide – or even subsidise home insulation. This is the most basic starting point for going green. If there is no home insulation then everything – green or otherwise – is actually waste….. Read more
I wonder, is this good Labour advice from Alastair Campbell?
Who seems to be ‘disguised’ in glasses and flat cap. Can we go further than “Aye, lad?” I’m fairly sure it is him (just over a minute):… Read more
A word for Dianne Abbott
We’ve just had an entire day of MP’s and indeed, journalists talking about the scourge of online abuse towards politicians. Yet there’s barely been a mention of the politician who receives the most online abuse (it seems – by an absolute country mile), Dianne Abbott. And a similar quantity of mainstream orthodox press abuse as… Read more
Covid – where are we now?
A very informative and long Twitter thread on the current UK Covid situation is linked here. This is a chart on the rate of UK hospital admissions which is way higher than elsewhere in Europe and with the additional UK problem of having less beds per head than almost all other European countries: The summary… Read more
Winner takes it all….
Is the supposedly desirable characteristic the UK’s First Past the Post electoral system. But is it actually desirable? The Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, has apparently written in various Sunday newspapers, in the light of the very sad murder of a second MP in recent times, about the need to end hatred… Read more
Electricity danger – or not?
This may be some rather unbelievable conspiracy theory – but with current media and government, I confess none of this would surprise me.. This is the UK/Continent electricity connection, on which the UK has a certain and considerable dependence… Might this mean that it is all part of the narrative of the disaster of the… Read more
Another damascene conversion – if laughably temporary…
This is Grant Shapps demonstrating that Brexit is further unravelling… (I must confess that I presume EU lorry drivers arrive in the UK visa free – and presumably with merely an identity card if they are without a passport.) Yet here we have Transport Minister Shapps tweeting how clever he is: It was already flagged… Read more
You can’t learn from history if you don’t know what it was
This short video gives information on the legal action that now has the necessary permission to bring a case to try to outlaw messaging secrecy within government. The case is a joint effort between All the Citizens, which is an organisation campaigning for more transparency and Foxglove Legal, which campaigns to hold the tech giants… Read more
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