Stemming The Anti-European Tide
How will the South East region vote in next week’s European elections? By Emma Harwood After forty years of membership, the UK has taken part in eight European elections without anyone paying much ; This could be because in previous…
The Politics Of Compulsion
The World Health Organization’s warning of a 300% increase in measles raises the question, should the state force you to vaccinate your child? Protecting your child is surely one of the most powerful and primal of ; So how would…
Civil Disobedience
Merlin Betts considers whether there are better and worse ways to change the world Extinction Rebellion are making waves here in the UK because they’ve disrupted traffic in Central London and sung loudly. The other day, I also saw one…
La Derecha Dura
Ahead of this weekend’s Spanish General Election, Dr Carlos Conde Solares of Northumbria University, Newcastle, writes for The Conversation about the rise of the Vox party in recent years. Approaching an election in Spain in which a large proportion of…
The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
By David Cromwell In 2013, US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was given a 35-year prison sentence after she had leaked more than 700,000 confidential US State Department and Pentagon documents, videos and diplomatic cables about the US wars in Iraq…
Confidence and Supply
Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign team have been holding talks with leaders of the DUP, whose confidence and supply arrangement is holding the government together. Having survived a vote of no confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party in December,…
Power To The PLC
By Jack Doherty These are busy times with things happening at many levels. While the superficial side of Brexit is being fought in Westminster, Brussels and living rooms up and down the country, Government Minister, Liam Fox, is busy signing…
Indicative?
Perhaps ‘indicative’ was too strong a word to describe a series of votes taken by MPs to find an alternative Brexit strategy. After twice rejecting the government’s plan, MPs have failed to determine any alternative put to the house by…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
GROUNDHOG MAYThe Prime Minister’s re-presenting of her vilified “deal” for a third time, with a fourth possibly on the horizon, appears to confirm Einstein’s edict: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Rather…
Ambivalent Amber in Hot Water
Local Conservative voters have told Hastings MP Amber Rudd she should resign following her decision to abstain on the commons Brexit vote to reject a ‘no-deal’ exit on March 14th. In an open letter to voters in her Hastings and…