Galloway Talks Shite Again
David Cameron is "pretty impressive", oh yes he is.
Still, at least GG admits his embarrassment at his behaviour on Celebrity BB.
Mind you, his new 'Fidel Castro Handbook' won't be top of my Christmas list.
David Cameron is "pretty impressive", oh yes he is.
Still, at least GG admits his embarrassment at his behaviour on Celebrity BB.
Mind you, his new 'Fidel Castro Handbook' won't be top of my Christmas list.
I'm currently writing a book about Poplarism, which gives me a superb excuse to leaf through labour movement stuff from the 1920s. On Friday, I browsed 'Lansbury's Labour Weekly', the newspaper that George Lansbury set up after the TUC took over his 'Daily Herald' in 1922.
LLW is a great read, with...
Engage was set up to campaign for links rather than boycotts as a way of supporting justice in Israel/Palestine. It initially concentrated its efforts on opposing the call for an academic boycott of Israel, but is now campaigning against the Israeli government's outrageous imposition of a ban on...
OK, three blog entries in one day is a bit profilic by my usual standards. But the Osborne-Brown-autism thing has only a short shelf-life, so I feel the need to comment now. To recap - Tory George Osborne made some quip suggesting that Gordon Brown might be 'faintly autistic'.
First off, it's a...
At my last union branch meeting, I lost a vote on a resolution opposing cuts in the abortion time limit. The vote was about 6 for, 10 against, with plenty abstaining (including our branch's SWP member, about which more later).
The arguments against were that while everyone supported a woman's right...
I really wish I wasn't doing so many posts about George Galloway. But he keeps on saying/doing outrageous stuff - eg. on the veil, and on abortion - and until his footsoldiers notice that the Emperor has no clothes, I'll have to keep pointing out his nakedness.
Morocco occupies the Western Sahara...
As you know, this blog likes to keep you up-to-date with the progress of the England women's football team.
So I am delighted to report that the team has qualified for next year's World Cup finals, thanks to a "gutsy" away draw in France.
Let's hope they don't stumble against any former Yugoslav...
Hackney Council is consulting on a new policy for hiring out estate community halls. This might not seem the biggest issue in a world of capitalist triumphalism and reactionary revivalism, but it's going to have an impact on working-class communities, so read on.
Until now, Tenants' and Residents'...
Here's an interesting Early Day Motion. Entitled 'REVIEW OF ABORTION LEGISLATION', it "endorses Recommendation 77 of the Report of the Science and Technology Committee, Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law; and calls on the Government to set up a joint committee of both Houses to consider the...
I got this glossy A5 leaflet though my door the other day. Make sure you're logged in and you'll see a picture of it. The text reads as follows ...
Dear householder
CLOTHING COLLECTION
WE URGENTLY NEED CLOTHING
THAT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY MAY NEVER WEAR AGAIN
MAYBE IT'S NO LONGER YOUR SIZE, OUT OF...
I was gathering my thoughts about Jack Straw's comments about Muslim women and the veil and had a look at Respect's response.
I have long since stopped being flabbergasted by George Galloway's statements, but this one really takes the biscuit: "Who does Jack Straw think he is to tell his female...
I may be a bit behind the times with this YouTube business, but this video made me titter.
Today I got my new eye. If you are logged in to this site, you can see a picture of it. What d'you reckon?
It feels pretty uncomfortable at the moment. It's going to take a couple of weeks to get used to it, increasing wearing time from a couple of hours per day until I have it in from when I wake...
"Let sunshine win the day" says David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party.
Sunshine? From the Tories?! Right - that'll be like the sunshine that shone down on mining communities when the last Tory government closed their pits, yeah? Or the sunshine streaming in through the letterboxes of...
60-year-old Elizabeth Pascoe has won her court battle to stop English Partnership taking a wrecking ball to her home under the Government's 'Pathfinder' housing scheme. She managed to persuade a judge that demolishing the place you live in is an infringement of your human rights. Well yes, you'd...
This one's for Hackney locals (including you Stoke Newington types who don't like to admit you live in Hackney), swimmers, and followers of useless local Councils and "Labour" politicians who fail working-class communities.
As you may already know, the Clissold Leisure Centre was Hackney Council's...
The march of the creationists into our kids' schools must be getting bad when even other Christians are complaining about it to the Government.
Christian thinktank Ekklesia and the British Humanist Association have jointly written to Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Education, calling...
Hat tip to Ben for this one.
As he says, sometimes satire is just too accurate.
The Social Market Foundation is hosting various fringe events at Labour Party conference. Here's how they describe one of them. Kindly note the last sentence (emphasis added by me; the bold stuff early on is in the original).
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Recently the headlines have been filled with cries that we...
A Mr Idris Francis is up in the European Court today, trying to get out of a fine for speeding, having lost his case in the High Court back in 2004. He reckons that because he was punished for refusing to tell the police who was driving the car, his 'right to not incriminate himself' was breached...
I got this letter (below) published in the Hackney Gazette this week. It's self-explanatory. I look forward to any response from TfL/Livingstone to the challenge at the end.
Last week's Gazette reported Transport for London's launch of its 'London Overground' project, joining up the North and East...
Those who deny that 'anti-Zionism' can ever be a cover for anti-semitism should read this: Zionist Domination of 'British' Economy.
It looks like Hackney TUC's public meeting with John McDonnell next month is going to be a good one. It's jointly organised with Leabridge branch Labour Party, and boasts some big cheese union speakers alongside the socialist candidate for Labour leader.
All of which will doubtless inspire many...
At Wednesday's RMT Women's Advisory Committee, we:
Labour Party spotters, Hackney activists and ex-student movement hacks of a certain age will be familiar with a certain Luke Akehurst. Uber-Blairite Luke is one of the few people who is actually ideologically committed to the Blair project, rather than just going along with it for the sake of a...
RMT members with strike tomorrow on Heathrow Express. Picket lines will be at Heathrow (Heathrow Express depot, don't know where exactly it is), Old Oak Common and Paddington from about 5am.
ASLEF and RMT were due to strike over pay and conditions on 7, 11 and 21 September. Yet again, an employer...
Apologies for the delay in posting the final TUC Congress blog. I've been laid up all weekend with PMT. I get it very badly every month, but this month could have been made worse by a dose of Post Margaret Tension, after the quite dreadful speech by Foreign Secretary Beckett.
There is something...
I'm very bothered by the six-month custodial sentence handed down to a teenage young woman who apparently falsely accused four men of rape. Why am I bothered?
Rape is a seriously under-reported crime, because it is horribly traumatic to report rape and try to 'prove' your version of events in the...
It's groundhog day on equalities representation, as Congress once again debates and rejects the dangerously revolutionary proposals that the TUC's Women's, LGBT, Black Workers' and Disabled Workers' Conferences should have the right to:
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