Independence Day
There have been many voices, from all sides, calling for an independent complaints and disciplinary procedure for the Labour Party. Superficially this seems an attractive proposal, but it is not…
I am Spartacus
On 20 May 2019 I released short statement on Twitter: I won’t support ‘a political organisation other than an official Labour group or other unit of the Party’ nor will…
Power to the People – well, at least to the women.
I had the delightful experience of attending the press preview of Women in Power, a new version of an old (very old) play, at the the Nuffield City Theatre in Southampton.…
This message of contempt to the Jewish community must be reversed
Labour Leader’s come and go. All are criticised by senior members of their party at one time or another – one a pacifist, another a war-monger. This one too right…
Fix the problem, not the process
Today 40 MPs and Peers escorted their colleague Ruth Smeeth MP to give evidence at a disciplinary hearing of a member of the Labour Party, Marc Wadsworth, accused of antisemitic…
Straight talking? Honestly? That’s politics.
When Chair of the NEC Andy Kerr (union puppet rather than puppet master) rose to shout at Labour’s National Policy Forum that they had no right to elect a new…
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