Adventures on Facebook
A Saturday night in, a bottle of wine and Facebook are not a great combo. The blinking cursor in […]
Don’t worry about a thing
On Wednesday, under blazing floodlights, The Kop took it’s final bow of the season. At the end of the game […]
Writing for your life: six word challenge
Write quicker, it’s coming for you.
A week in the city: Justice and the long arm of the people
“Passengers please be aware that due to the service of remembrance for The 96 delays are likely due the increased […]
Solidarity City: Legacy of the 96
This week six women and three men, in a purpose built box made of glass and brick, in the small […]
Merseyside Derby Heroes
Originally posted on Ramblings of an Ordinary Man:
This is a fixture that can cement a player or a manager’s reputation for better or…
Unshakable belief: The Liverpool Way
Ours is truly an incredible club. Time and again we are driven to the brink of defeat, but refuse to […]
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 […]
#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 […]
Ramblings of an Ordinary Man 
Why I won’t be giving up the fight for a socialist Labour Party
The challenge that faces Labour today is whether to run from the fight, or stand firm and see it through? I won’t be running.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
Forged in the fire of protest: A Prime Minister for the many
If you want a Prime Minister who stands on the side of the many, then you should be heartened by a man who has done just that his whole life.
Lies, damn lies and false narratives
Labour's self-styled moderates are using the doctrine of false narrative to undermine party democracy. It is a tool Labour's enemies have perfected down the years and it should shame Corbyn's right-wing opponents.
Peace: The Only Way To Truly Honour The Fallen
Once gain the right-wing media is in ferment. No it’s not rising use of food-banks, homelessness or the ongoing humanitarian […]