Phil Burton-Cartledge

Wow, it's almost like they know what they're doing is evil and want to keep people from knowing about it.

At this rate Tony Blair is in danger of boosting Keir Starmer's poll numbers.

Tony Blair's "rare intervention" is winning him new friends, I see.

Some people don't know when to shut up.

Police search home of former Labour MP’s husband amid China spying investigation James Robinson, husband of Gloria De Piero, says police visited their home with a warrant but he has not been detained or questioned The husband of former Labour MP Gloria De Piero has confirmed his home was searched on Wednesday as part of a police investigation into an alleged Chinese spying ring. James Robinson, a former aide to the ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, issued a statement confirming the raid on the home he shares with his wife, but said he had not been detained or questioned by police. Continue reading...

Police search home of former Labour MP’s husband amid China spying investigation

It's all about Den Hegarty. Proper mad lad. #totp

Darts are amazing #totp

Sorry to inform you another boy band is at the top. #totp

Ah, I know why. This cover is utterly forgettable.

How did I forget the Happy Mondays' reunion? #totp

What the hell is this? #totp

I never got the Super Furrys until Juxtaposed With U. #totp

Lib Dems have 40 years of continuous campaigning under that name. Of course you're going to be doing better.

I never minded Geri as was, but Look At Me is one of the worst songs of the 1990s. #totp

Ah, That Don't Impress Me Much. Instantly takes me back to the factory floor at Rists. #totp

Timothy Mitchell in conversation with Noah Kulwin | The Verso Book Clu On March 22nd at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT the VBC Reading Group will be joined by Timothy Mitchell, acclaimed author of Carbon Democracy, to discuss his latest book, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Ea...

Join us on March 22nd for the next session of the Verso Book Club. Timothy Mitchell will be joined by Noah Kulwin to discuss The Alibi of Capital!

"A paradigm-shifting critique of the logic that underlies the modern economy." -- Publishers Weekly

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The government is due to publish a Social Cohesion Action Plan next week. The Spectator have published a leaked draft. The government is not confirming its status

And Backstreet Boys are in at one with a karaoke favourite. #totp

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

The 1968 My Lai massacre killed at least 347 civilians. It led to congressional hearings and criminal trials. The bombing of the #Minab school, if confirmed to be an American airstrike, is a comparable massacre and scandal. A dark day in American history.

At last, a decent tune! #totp

Ah yes, the Labour Party. A party famously averse to illegal wars and bombing the Middle East.

I know - I follow by-elections very closely. And as I've said, the time between the membership surge and it following through to more by-election gains will take time.

Much patriotism

The Radical Left and the Movement in Australia against the First Gulf War, 1990–91: Anti-Imperialism at the End of the Cold War Evan Smith The Gulf War in 1990–91 came at the end of the Cold War and at a time when the Left across the globe was reassessing itself as the Soviet Bloc collapsed. In this period of flux, the Australian Radical Left had also experienced a series of debates about its configuration, with several different attempts at unity, as well as reconsiderations about the relationship between the extra-parliamentary Left, the trade unions and the Australian Labor Party. After Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990 and several Western powers, led by the USA and Britain, sought to intervene, Bob Hawke’s Labor government supported the coalition against Iraq. A movement against Western intervention in the Gulf and Australia’s involvement in the coalition was built, including sections of the Labor Left, the trade unions, the peace movement, students and the organisations of the Far Left. Most looked back to the decade-long movement against the Vietnam War for the framework for the anti-war campaign, but the Left, in all its guises, had faded in influence since the 1970s. This article will look at how the movement against the First Gulf War developed between August 1990 and March 1991 and how it reflected a fractured and weakened Left in Australia in the dying days of the Cold War.

It is 35 years since the end of the First Gulf War in 1991. I wrote this article for Labour History in 2024 about the anti-war movement in Australia in 1990-91 and its relationship with the radical left.

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Honestly the contempt I feel for Dubai 'ex-pats' isn't based on class so much as their willingness to embrace a life of luxury and excess in a society propped up by slavery, exploitation and human rights abuse as though they were living in a JG Ballard novel they refuse to understand

Indeed. But it will feed through in time.

I'm sure the Liberals once said the same as Labour quietly ate away at its base.

Good point

There is a growing left wing party that can quieten Farage's boast. The Greens are at 215,000 and counting ...

Of course. These people deserve mockery and derision.