I am a degenerate modern semi-intellectual who would die if I did not get my early morning cup of tea and my New Statesman every Friday. Wednesday, 6 June 2012. Its aim is to address the underlying principle of the EU rather than its current problems. In short, only a people who perceive themselves as a unified political unit can be r.

There was an error in this gadget. There was an error in this gadget. Tuesday, 19 March 2013. I just cannot support what we are doing on this. Sunday, 22 July 2012. Are Labour and Conservative leaders now looking to appeal to the working class? My post from British Politics and Policy at LSE. According to polling data, Labour is well ahead of the Conservatives in the C2DE group. Monday, 9 July 2012. Sunday, 27 November 2011.

Craig Whittaker wins Calder Valley. Has held her Halifax seat, increasing her majority from just 428 in 2015 to over 5000 in 2017.

Monday, 2 February 2009. He was one of the first to use the pool with his family when it first opened in November 1968.

Further Education and Higher Education action on 3 December. 24-hour Tube and staff cuts what I said to the evening standard.

Now the slightly controversial bit.

Sunday, 8 February 2009. The Salford Left Forum, along with S. E, firmly rejects the job cuts and believes that the university would find the financial headroom it is looking for by spending wisely, rather than through redundancies. People should not be made to pay with their jobs to compensate for the financial incompetence of their bosses.

Electoral project risks repeating past errors. Gramsci and the tasks for the Left. The radicalism of action, not words. Lessons learned from anti-war organising. Accounting for culture in class analysis. Leading the fight back? Left Luggage.

Musings on life and how to live it, mixing pop and politics, stuff and nonsense. Monday, 3 December 2007.