Month: May 2018

While one can guarantee that on the streets of British provincial towns, it is not exactly an issue high on most people’s agenda, it is clear that, on Twitter and in the political bubble that is Westminster politics, the tricky area of trans politics has in recent months taken a huge step into the limelight.… Continue reading The madness of self-identification in a political party

My new piece for Progress is about the sharp decline of Turkey as a functioning democracy (okay, it’s never been perfect, but it’s really headed down the wrong road now). Most interestingly, at least one journalist has recently been noting the marked similarity between President Erdogan’s populist positioning and that of a certain party leader… Continue reading Turkey’s democracy is crumbling

The general consensus of the UK media is that Labour did not achieve the result it needed to in the local elections last Thursday. As largely expected, it had lukewarm results in London overall and disappointing results outside. But the most significant result of the night was surely that in Barnet, where the Tories in… Continue reading The shame of Barnet – losing a council because the voters think you’re racist

Wes Streeting (left), one of the five MPs attacked by McCluskey, among the group who escorted Ruth Smeeth MP to the hearing of Marc Wadsworth, who left her in tears at the launch of the Chakrabarti Report A week ago, the leader of Britain’s largest union, Unite, decided to wade into the anti-Semitism debate with… Continue reading Why McCluskey tried to bully moderates last week and why it didn’t work