“There is a spectre haunting Britain,” Ken Loach warned a packed conference hall at the first national meeting of a political movement in its genesis. “It’s called Nigel Farage.” There will be few more haunted by the spectre of Farage’s UKIP than David Cameron as he heads into conference season. With the European Parliament elections […]
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Round 3 with Iain Dale on his drive time LBC Radio show. This time, as Labour’s poll ratings are falling, I made the case that the public want to see a genuine alternative to austerity and that if Labour won’t provide that, we in Left Unity will. I’m beginning to enjoy being Dale’s token lefty
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On my way to work on Monday I was curious to see a small group of anti-fracking protesters superglued to the entrance of Bell Pottinger, the PR firm used by energy company Cuadrilla. The irony is, better PR is exactly what anti-fracking activists need. The protesters had brought with them signs bearing the slogan “fracking
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Managed to get this letter into the Guardian today, signed by director Ken Loach, Only Fools and Horses actor Roger Lloyd Pack, former Children’s laureate Michael Rosen and a number of other famous writers, academics, activists and musicians supporting Left Unity. This summer will be remembered for Labour‘s final betrayal of the working-class people it
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I was on the Boulton & Co show on Sky News last week, debating the Telegraph’s Dan Hodges on Ed Miliband’s welfare reform plans. Both Hodges and I have traditionally been critical of Miliband, but from opposite directions. Now Hodges appears to be warming up to Miliband as he lurches to the right over welfare,
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It was an action-packed day for Ed Miliband last Thursday, ripping up every last shred of hope those of us on the left had that he might provide some principled opposition to Tory-led austerity. And it was an action-packed day for me, with appearances on Sky News and LBC Radio criticising Miliband’s welfare reform plans
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Except he doesn’t. This is just another pointless and misleading headline in today’s Metro. Another nothing story to squeeze a little bit more moral panic juice out of the upsurge in anti-Muslim sentiment. Under the headline “Extremist preacher faces arrest”, the Metro goes on to report that “Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary will be arrested as
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As David Cameron was in Brussels for vital talks on tackling tax havens, I was invited back on RT News to give my two tax compliant cents.
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A massive leak exposed in the Guardian yesterday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists identified thousands of the world’s super-rich who have hidden trillions of dollars in tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands. In the wake of the expose, I was asked to discuss the social cost of tax havens on Voice
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I was saddened today to hear of the death of Richard Griffiths. There were many roles in which he glowed, not least as Hector in The History Boys. But his standout performance for me was as the flamboyant, predatory thesp Uncle Monty in Withnail & I, who wept in butcher’s shops, thought the cauliflower more
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