Bristling Badger

Careful what you wish for. On 15 July the Daily Telegraph ran an article headed How you can help Jeremy Corbyn win - and destroy ...

Leon Trotsky, Corbynite The Labour Party is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Stalin's assassination of Leon Trotsky by having a ...

Six months ago it would have been quite a funny joke - if the Tories get a majority they'll repeal the Human Rights Act and replace i...

With any argument against Scottish independence, the simple test is to apply it to Ireland.  Did Irish independence betray the interna...

Five years since a cow tried to end David Blunkett's political career, the longtime ex-socialist has decided to do it himself . ...

Among Nigel Farage's guests on last week's Question Time were David Dimbleby and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas. It was an interesti...

UKIP have got a freepost address so, if you want to send their leaflets back at their expense, it's easily done. It's been noted tha...

I saw Tony Benn speak a few times but beyond what he said to the mass audience I was even more struck by how he treated people individually ...

Remember folks, the lack of adequate flood defence and relief is because all the money goes on foreign aid, not because flood funding was ...

The problem with working for social change is that you never know if you're wasting your time. Only hindsight, and almost always a consi...

The difference between Labour and Tory governments is that you can keep up with the pace of neoliberal evil Labour inflict. The Tories blast...

The BBC stays nigh-on silent about the privatisation of the NHS. But here's a BBC news story complete with audio about a LibDem MP (t...

As bailiffs beat up protesters in the tree protest camps at the Newbury Bypass, police officers would simply turn round and face the other ...

The 2010 Coalition agreement spelt it out in clear terms. Liberal Democrats have long opposed any new nuclear construction. Conservative...

None of us like to think of ourselves as slave owners. It has become unsavoury to have house slaves so we squirrel them away out of sight in...

The MPs expenses scandal is still with us. George Osborne is a Chelsea fan (who else?). He just happens to have a meeting arranged with Ger...

Last Sunday the Mail headlined the Tory declaration that there will be no Mansion Tax. The – and I use the term in its broadest sense – new...

In the last days of that runaway train of Tory evil before the 1997 general election the man seen as their next leader, Michael Portillo, wa...

Boris Johnson shambles along with his ill-chosen words and messy hair, and we see him as a bumbler who can't really do much harm. Ronald...

Let's just remind ourselves of the official position of the police regarding undercover officers having sexual relationships with the pe...