Month: September 2014

I am pleased to report that the Mother of all Parliaments has finally decided that, although it was perfectly prepared for two hundred thousand Syrians to die over the last three years, a great many of whom have died since its vote on the matter last year, it has finally relented on military action in… Continue reading ISIL: can we just get this straight, please?

23 September, 2014: the culmination of four years as leader. Milliband’s last major pitch to lead the country, for this parliament at least. From now, time can only tell whether it has been the gateway to a whole new vista of politics for Miliband and the keys to No. 10; an attempt to convince his… Continue reading Ed’s speech needed to change the political weather. It didn’t

Last time a part of Britain wanted to become independent, we sent in the Black and Tans. This referendum really hasn’t gone that badly. My sixteenth piece for the Independent, making that point, is here.

While Westminster’s attention is distracted by Scotland, it is gradually becoming abundantly clear that the grooming of young, white girls by Pakistani-heritage men goes way beyond Rotherham. Last week Uncut’s Kevin Meagher highlighted the next few likely police targets in Greater Manchester and this Left Foot Forward piece gives a first-hand account of grooming in… Continue reading The Rotherham abuse is merely yet another facet of the disastrous biraderi politics Labour has nurtured

My fifteenth piece for the Independent, on the perennially dreadful Stoppers, is here. In this latest episode, they rather unpleasantly pretended that the IS threat to the Yazidis was “a false story”. When the male population of a whole village was decimated, this text magically disappeared from their website. Seems they struggle to criticise even… Continue reading The Stop the War Coalition should do us all a favour and disband