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Forty-year veteran of British leftwing politics. Not the opinions of any publication for which I write.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg thinks food banks are 'rather uplifting', Grenfell Tower victims 'lacked common sense', Partygate was 'just fluff'. And that the US/Israeli illegal war on Iran is entirely justified.

09.03.2026 14:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 46 ๐Ÿ” 17 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Republican presidential contender John McCain once sang the words 'bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran' to the tune of the Beachboys' hit Barbara Anne. 165 dead schoolgirls later, Trump has given him his wish.

09.03.2026 13:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The US/Israeli attack on Iran is a pointless, nasty and illegal war. Whatever Kemi Badenoch may think, the 'patriotic' course is to keep Britain well out of it.

09.03.2026 13:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 46 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As the vulgar English saying goes, 'don't piss on me and tell me it's raining'. The political version is 'don't piss on me and tell me to vote for you'.

09.03.2026 13:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Crown Courts have a backlog of 80,000 cases because the justice system has been underfunded for decades. Not because people have the right to a jury trial.

09.03.2026 13:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 56 ๐Ÿ” 18 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd just about buy the argument that Labour is planning to end the right to jury trials because of financial constraints, although I wouldn't support the measure even then. But to dress this policy up as somehow progressive is simply laughable.

09.03.2026 12:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 37 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How can Hannah Spencer plausibly claim to be working class when her father wasn't even a toolmaker?

28.02.2026 13:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 84 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Starting to wonder if Trump's Board of Peace has been inaptly named

28.02.2026 12:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 74 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

It's almost as if the Labour Party is getting bored with losing activists they've had for 50 years and is now turning its best efforts to losing seats it has held for a century

28.02.2026 11:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 93 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

As extreme leftists who want to turn school playgrounds into crack dens go, many Green activists are quite personable when you meet them face to face

28.02.2026 11:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 52 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A Labour prime minister with an ounce of political nous would look at the Gorton and Denton result and think 'mmm, I wonder if the electorate are trying to say something?'

28.02.2026 11:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 63 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For much of my political lifetime, Hannah Spencer's views would have qualified her to be an unexceptional Labour MP. For Starmer to castigate the Greens as 'extreme left' is risible.

28.02.2026 11:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 124 ๐Ÿ” 30 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

MPs are not allowed to question the integrity of King Charles III. This is the guy who accepted a suitcase stuffed with ยฃ2.6m in cash from a dubious Qatari politician.

23.02.2026 23:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 79 ๐Ÿ” 23 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

They say the royal family is a tourist attraction. So is Legoland, and last time I checked, it hadn't leaked trade secrets to predatory billionaire paedophiles.

23.02.2026 23:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 170 ๐Ÿ” 44 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Appointing Robert Jenrick as Reform UK's shadow chancellor should raise a few tens of thousands of pounds in donations from billionaire property developers keen to avoid ยฃ45m tax bills

17.02.2026 16:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 95 ๐Ÿ” 32 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Given how much Nigel Farage hates working from home, it would be nice to see him turn up at his workplace a bit more regularly

10.02.2026 17:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1174 ๐Ÿ” 302 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 50 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

I've just learned that all self-respecting superyacht owners buy second vessels known as 'support yachts' just to carry their jet skis and helicopters. And we still get told that inequality doesn't matter.

10.02.2026 17:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 196 ๐Ÿ” 45 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

It's really unlucky that the people charged with vetting Mandelson's Washington appointment didn't think to try a basic Google search. It would have saved them a lot of work

08.02.2026 17:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 137 ๐Ÿ” 22 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The Mandelson scandal will probably topple Starmer. That must be the first time he's ever done anything positive for the Labour Party.

06.02.2026 16:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 82 ๐Ÿ” 19 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

At a single stroke, Lord Mandelson has completely destroyed his hard-won reputation for honesty. Tragic.

05.02.2026 13:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 79 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Supporters of the House of Lords should tell us why Lord Mandelson, Baroness Mone, Lord Houchen, Lord Lebedev and Baroness Owen deserve to be unelected lawmakers for the rest of their lives

03.02.2026 10:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 257 ๐Ÿ” 113 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15 ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

To rewrite the words of the great Barry Manilow, Mandy came and he took without giving

03.02.2026 10:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 58 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Britain must be the only country in the world where politicians get more stick for mispronouncing Epstein's surname than for making use of his services

03.02.2026 09:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 52 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Springsteen's anti-Trump song is probably better than any anti-Springsteen song Trump will ever write

31.01.2026 18:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 61 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Daily Mail describes Sarah Ferguson as 'homeless'. If I see her begging outside the local shopping centre, I'll probably bung her a couple of quid.

31.01.2026 13:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 75 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

What Lee Anderson hasn't pointed out yet is that in 1930s the Daily Mail supported the British Union of Fascists and in the 2020s the Daily Mail supports Reform UK

31.01.2026 12:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 94 ๐Ÿ” 37 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

The big difference between fraudulent covid loans and student loans is that fraudulent covid loans are happily written off

31.01.2026 11:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 105 ๐Ÿ” 42 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

If VAT on private school fees is 'class war', what's the right term for 8% compound interest on student loans?

31.01.2026 11:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 132 ๐Ÿ” 40 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Suella Braverman announced her defection to Reform at a rally for veterans this morning. Maybe she also used the speech to condemn Trump's slur that the audience were cowards in Afghanistan and it just hasn't been reported.

26.01.2026 13:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 65 ๐Ÿ” 15 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

We absolutely don't need the Chinese embassy tapping British citizens' phone calls. We've already got the Daily Mail doing that for us, thank you.

26.01.2026 13:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 85 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2