On Communist Hobgoblins
When Helen Macfarlane produced the first English language translation of The Communist Manifesto she began the text by saying; “A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout Europe. We are […]
The Left
This is my “Lily Allen formula”
Lily Allen has a new video out called Hard Out Here. You may have seen people arguing about it. Here’s my take; If Allen’s latest […]
From the archives: For an open and flexible party
A little while ago while going through some old boxes I’d taken out of stories I came across this “hidden gem”. My 2002 contribution to […]
The left needs infrastructure
You don’t have to go back very far to see that ‘once upon a time’ the left had a modest but actually existing infrastructure of […]
Ten years after: an international moment of hope
Ten years ago something like 30 million people took to the streets across the world in what was an unprecedented international day of action against the […]