Dylan: A poet not a prophet
Dylan's lyrics were profoundly poetic, but were they prophetic?
Socialism for the 21st century: Labour transformed
The question is not whether we can afford to implement Labour's programme, but rather can we afford not to.
The ‘moderate tendency’ and the entitlement delusion
The subversion of democracy, even when it seeks to damage those we disagree with, harms all of us.
Undermining hope: The toxic legacy of a pointless leadership election
Since when has dreaming of a better world been a crime? Life is painfully short and to devote your energies to anything other than imagining a better world, and striving to make it a reality, is a life wasted.
Liverpool 2-2 Leicester City (1983): Out Of Time
How does a football club get over the trauma of losing the most successful club managers in the history of the game? If you are Manchester United, you appoint David […]
China Crisis and Wishful Thinking
Any week that starts with a frustrating draw in London, ends with an international weekend and has a nation’s unhealthy obsession with Jim White’s yellow tie sandwiched in the […]
Why I’m voting for Corbyn, and why you should too
The idea that any Labour government is better than a Tory one sells our people short. Yes we need Labour in power, but to do what? If not to transform society into one, in which all people are of equal value, and where wealth and power are distributed equitably, then it is for nothing.
Anfield Bark: You’ll always find them in the kitchen at parties
This is about soul writing, the sort of stuff that goes down in the kitchen, at parties. Not your usual Liverpool website at all.
Dear Tom, about this Trotsky thing…..
Attempts to use the word 'Trotskyist' as an insult, are both politically illiterate and designed to place certain ideas beyond the political pale.
Jeremy Corbyn: A revolution in plain sight
In their thousands they came. Carrying home-made placards, they came. Women pushing prams, their kids in tow, the young, middle-aged and old, black, white, disabled, the old left and the […]
Ramblings of an Ordinary Man 