Owen Jones says that a Corbyn victory will shift the “Overton Window” to the left, and most of the commentariat, which failed to predict Corbyn’s rise, is now predicting that a Jeremy Corbyn victory will tip the Labour Party over the edge and into the abyss of electoral self-destruction. We can but hope. Two British pundits […]
At PMQs last week Ed Miliband repeatedly attacked David Cameron for giving an “£145 million tax cut to hedge funds”, claiming that it was payback for donations from City tycoons and hedge fund managers. A pretty extraordinary claim that the Labour party is persisting with despite there having been no such thing and despite having […]
The Tories know that commuters hate being held to ransom by transport strikers, they know that union bashing polls well with their target voters and puts Labour’s Ed Miliband, the leader of a union-financed opposition party, on the side of his sponsor’s vested interests and the wrong side of most voters. So much for the low […]
In the late late 80s I ran the London office of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte (IGFM or the International Society for Human Rights) a German headquartered group which focused heavily on helping the victims of communism. We publicised prisoners of conscience in the gulags, provided material aid to dissidents and smuggled samizdat information out […]
