JEREMY CORBYN, MP (Islington Tribune)
…and a message from North of the Border we should note.
First, the good news. There is a Left-wing, anti-austerity candidate standing in the Labour Party’s…Read more…
FIFA’s Unfinished, and Proper, Business
WAITING for sporting chance. Palestinian team detained at border.
IT did not make the front-pages nor TV news here, unlike the arrests in FIFA, but there was a not unconnected incident on May…Read more…
London Coroner’s Careful Verdict Leaves Case for Pursuing Justice
A London coroner has accepted that London student Jeremiah Duggan was killed when he ran into motorway traffic outside Wiesbaden, in Germany, as reported by witnesses; but rejected the German…Read more…
When political tricks misfire
DEMONSTRATORS outside Kirkwall cathedral (pic from the Orcadian) and below, marching on Carmichael’s Shetlands office (BBC).
FORMER Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael, the last Lib Dem MP…Read more…
Searching for Justice for Jeremiah Duggan
JEREMIAH DUGGAN. Unlikely ‘suicide’. Normally cheerful student ‘phoned home in terror before meeting his death at Wiesbaden.
A LONDON family’s long search for truth and justice for the…Read more…
Art and Labour in Abu Dhabi
AT the end of April a group of trade unionists and safety campaigners went to the Qatar embassy in London, to hold a protest and deliver a letter about the lives and conditions of migrant workers in…Read more…
Call it “Community”. Sounds nicer than Slavery on the High Street
LONDONERS and South-East commuters must be very well-informed. We get regional news and features on TV, and free newspapers cluttering the tube. We even have a new regional commercial TV channel. We…Read more…
Why can’t Turkish government be honest about the past?
FORCED MARCH. Armenians being deported under armed guard, 1915. People were punished if they tried to help the victims.
RELATIONS between the Turkish government and Germany could be…Read more…
Turkish Entanglement
DIFFERENT REPORTING. Mail didn’t have name or photograph. Turkish papers, evidently better briefed, had both, and claimed to know whom arrested Brit had been working for. …Read more…
Disputed Victories
CELEBRATING DELIVERANCE. Rehobothers celebrating victory at Sam Khubis with traditional ‘lang-arm’ dance. But should Namibia’s president be welcome?
YESTERDAY’S commemorations of VE Day -…Read more…
The Misfortunes of Nigel
NIGEL FARAGE, the valiant champion of British liberties and freedom of speech, has complained to police about a remark made on the BBC satirical news programme ‘Have I Got News for You’,…Read more…
Tower Hill to Mayfair, the Message is the Same
WORKERS from London’s Crossrail project where Rene Tkacik was killed last year were among those who gathered by the statue of the Unknown Building Worker on Tower Hill on Tuesday morning, April…Read more…
No “Ordinary Bloke” , that Nigel
Making Plans for Nigel
A Beginner’s Guide to Farage and UKIP, by Harry…Read more…
Willie comes back to haunt the Highlands (and Britain’s secret state)
REMEMBERING WILLIAM McRAE and raising questions about his death. Ex-policeman Donald Morrison (in blue) and campaigner Mark MacNicol by memorial cairn.
IT could make a strong episode of ‘New…Read more…
More than Chutzpah Behind the Bulldozers
HOW IT WAS
A historic London pub has been demolished by a developer’s bulldozers, without planning permission, and without warning to people in neighbouring properties or any…Read more…
Secrecy, Blacklists and Whistleblowing
THE FIGHT FOR THE NHS
Charlotte Munro, public service whistleblower reinstated. Nice to win sometimes.
MORE questions have been raised than are being answered in the run-up to…Read more…
Is Your Vote Going to the Henry Jackson Society?
THERE’s more to politics than party leaders appearing on television and supporters canvassing for your vote. Amid all the messages I’m seeing on Facebook concerned with the May 7 general…Read more…
Dirty Tricks department turned on Sturgeon: Was Memo Leaked or Faked?
SCOTTISH National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon remained centre stage this weekend, offering Labour’s Ed Miliband a deal to keep Tory David Cameron out of Downing Street. Writing in the…Read more…
Good news for Good Friday and maybe a good beginning
IT’S good news for the Easter weekend, and for the end of the Persian Spring festival Nawroz. A great power agreement with Iran has been reached, providing for limits on the country’s nuclear energy…Read more…
“Benefits Cheats”? But they’re within the rules.
JIM MURPHY, MP, Labour’s leader in Scotland, first made his name twenty years ago as leader of the National Union of Students, reversing the union’s opposition to the abolition of grants and…Read more…