Month: March 2018

An update on the many things I have written on Labour, Momentum, the left in general and anti-Semitism over the last seven years: I and others have wondered in recent months whether or not Labour is actually close to a “tipping point” on the issue, where its failure to deal with the issue can no… Continue reading Labour’s anti-Semitism tipping point – or not?

If there were a week for Labour MPs to question their continued acceptance of the party whip, it was surely the last one. Should we cite the lack of apparent sanction on Chris Williamson MP, who appeared onstage with Jackie Walker, suspended from the party for anti-Semitism along with Tony Greenstein, and then proposed their… Continue reading The Labour MP’s dilemma: when does this become party before country?

Putin’s passion for rearmament is well-known (he currently spends around double the proportion of GDP on defence that NATO members do). But so far, his targets have all been able to be dismissed, in Chamberlain’s awful words of appeasement, as “faraway countries”.However, today there is a piece of news it could be easy to lose… Continue reading Not just Skripal: we should all care about what Putin’s up to elsewhere in Europe

By Rwendland (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons Following the abrupt resignation of Iain McNicol – apparently not fallen on his sword but pushed under a bus by the party leadership (£) – there are currently two candidates to be Labour’s General Secretary: Unite’s Jennie Formby and Momentum’s Jon Lansman. While this might be reasonably likened… Continue reading Three reasons why Jennie Formby should not become General Secretary of the Labour Party