Jeremy Corbyn has announced his new project; Peace and Justice Limited. His new company has been busy gathering supporters personal contact details and selling monthly subscriptions. This looks awfully like a new political party led by Corbyn ready for his inevitable expulsion from the Labour Party for his attitude to anti-semitism. It also looks a … Read more
I think that we can all breathe out now and accept that Joe Biden will be the next President, and hopefully a bit of normality will take hold again. Biden won with a record number of votes, but Democrats down the ticket did worse than opinion polls suggested. From Brexit in 2016 to Trump vs … Read more
Updated For my last blog before the US elections I had hoped to persuade some Trump supporters to share why they were so keen to see him re-elected. Sadly I was only able to find two Trump supporters to share their views, one from the US, one from the UK. Not sure whether this is … Read more
I can’t be the only person to gaze in horror at Donald Trump’s suits. For a man who is apparently a multi-millionaire he dresses like a sack of potatoes tied in the middle (as my old gran would say). His suits are expensive, made to measure and yet still he looks scruffy and badly dressed. … Read more
I joined some pro-Trump and QAnon/Save the Children groups to research a blog on the coming American Election/Coup D’etat. Frankly what I found was too strange to get my head round, a combination of authoritarianism, conspiracy theories, and new age weirdness. I expected to find fanaticism but all I found was heart breaking loneliness and … Read more
Last month I wrote about the potential for Coronavirus to take hold in rural America. Since then the situation has worsened rapidly, and we are way beyond what I considered a worse case scenario. Without a big change of plan they will at least double their number of deaths before the election. Trebling the number … Read more
Munira Mirza has been appointed to lead the Governments inquiry into racism in Britain. While she is little know outside of political circles her appointment has caused widespread shock. Mirza doesn’t believe that institional racism exists, and is a strong defender of Boris Johnson comments about letterboxes and watermelon smiles. This is typical of her … Read more
Dominic Cummings isn’t going. The scandal, while huge, is not enough to push him out the door. Even his presence getting in the way of the Government tackling a pandemic he is staying. Those of use who think he should go won’t get our wish. Boris wants us all to move on, but Boris hasn’t … Read more
Over the last few weeks I have written about problems with NHS procurement. Since becoming Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock has centralised NHS procurement and cut Trust budgets to save money. This, plus a failure to adequately prepare for a pandemic, has caused shortfalls of PPE across the NHS. One of the bright … Read more
“Just remember how you felt on that dreadful morning of June 10th, just remember how you felt then, and think to yourselves: June the Ninth, 1983, never ever again will we experience that.’” This was Neil Kinnock’s first speech to Labour Conference as leader. He had started the process of taking the Labour back from … Read more