Brexit blues, principles and food on the table
Sometimes you just have to get stuff off your chest. Sometimes you simply have to wallow in your misery. It may not be articulate and it usually isn’t pretty, but […]
Voting Leave? What are you really angry about?
Remember the run up to last General Election? What a time that was. If you recall Britain was in a revolutionary state. Demonstrations, riots and people out on the streets […]
Hope will never be silent
My thoughts in the aftermath of today's terrible shooting in Florida and the danger of despair
Media get their coup: Just not the one they wanted
Cameron's gamble on Europe leads to open revolt. Now Labour have a chance to set out a positive vision for Europe.
The Greatest
The man in three quotes: “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t see.” “I done wrestled with an alligator, I done […]
Adventures on Facebook
A Saturday night in, a bottle of wine and Facebook are not a great combo. The blinking cursor in the empty status field becomes hypnotic and my resistance is […]
Stay or go, left or right: the duality of Europe
Today Jeremy Corbyn gave his first speech on the forthcoming European referendum. It is a refreshing intervention. Not least because so far the debate has been largely restricted to competing […]
#CameronResign: It’s a start, but nowhere near enough
Imagine if David Cameron did resign over his admission that he had profited from his father’s involvement in tax avoidance schemes. For starters it would illustrate the devastating impact of […]
A Private Matter: Tale Of Two Moralities
Cast your mind back, if you will, to the summer of 2012. Close your eyes for a moment and picture a puffed up Prime Minister waxing lyrical about the morality […]
Ramblings of an Ordinary Man 